The Ease of Erasing History
I've always had an interest in the history of history.
For one, that historians are even remotely interested in the lives of ordinary people is a...
American Exceptionalism #44, No Greater Love
(H/T to Pike Hightower, who provided this.)
JFK’S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when DeGaulle decided to pull out...
American Exceptionalism #17: The American How-To Book
I'll get to #'s 1 thru 16 later. We've talked about them before.
Note the book cover, which I only ran across a week or...
Lawyers’ Wives and Other Reformed Whores
I'm not sure who first used this title, and it may even have been me, in 2009, when I wrote a short essay on...
American Exceptionalism or American Freak show?
I recently watched an interview of Barack Obama in which he discussed the parallel views of reality in American politics. (It was undated, so...