Archive for the 'History' Category

Watergate vs. Scandalgate: why didn’t Nixon destroy the tapes?

Thursday, May 16th, 2013

Why was there no Benghazi rescue attempt?

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

How do you teach critical thinking?

Saturday, April 13th, 2013

Lenin, Dostoevsky, and me

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Constraining Obama

Saturday, April 6th, 2013

RIP Rabbi Herschel Schacter

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

The press has won

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

Looking back: the long reach of time

Friday, March 1st, 2013

Joan Rivers’ Heidi Klum joke: not so very funny, not so very knowledgeable

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

“People considered ketchup spicy”…

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

If you call someone a Marxist you’re a McCarthyite…

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

What about those Roaring 20s?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

About Me

Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely leaving the fold and becoming that dread thing: a neocon.
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