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How Sex Trumped Race - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Ross Douthat JAN. 17, 2018, New York Times(Original article contains links.)Image from article, with caption: A demonstrator at the Women's March in Washington last yearSuppose that you were asked to...
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Writers gonna write
TOM RACHMAN, The Times Literary Supplement[Original article is marked by italics]Image from articleBooks on proper English do strangely well – perhaps because those whobuy books are those who mind...
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This map shows the US really has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely...
businessinsider.comMark Abadi Jan. 18, 2018, 9:40 AMColin WoodardThe United States has many regions, and author Colin Woodard argues that it can be divided into 11 sub-nations.Woodard's defined...
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Enjoy your diplomatic dip!
Edited from an entry by Facebook friend:I can't resist juxtaposing these two images -- who says Americans and Russians can't get along?Here (pixes of American ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. and...
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Review: Buffalo Bill and the Indians
Andrew R. Graybill, Wall Street JournalTwo very different books explore the myths, metaphors and realities of William F. Cody’s Wild West show.At the heart of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, which...
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‘Hostiles’ Review: Savagery and Redemption - Note for a discussion, "E...
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal (Original articles contains a clip from the film.)image from film fromAs the Indian Wars wind down, a battle-hardened soldier played by Christian Bale escorts a...
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Fed up with ‘tyranny’ and taxes, California group wants to secede from state
Jennifer Harper - The Washington TimesThey’d call it ‘New California’Image from article, with caption: Heavily populated Hollywood and coastal areas would remain part of the state under the New...
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Polarization Is an Old American Story - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
Wall Street Journalimage from entryGordon Wood, the noted historian of early America, says Adams’s Federalists and Jefferson’s Republicans were far more divided than today’s political parties.By Jason...
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Review: The Reconstruction Era’s Open Wound - Note for a discussion, "E...
Wall Street JournalImage from article, with caption: A railroad depot in Richmond, Va., the fallen capital of the Confederacy, ca. April-June 1865. An anthology of period writings gives voice to the...
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What’s the Most Common Surname in Your State? - Note for discussion, "E...
blogs.ancestry.comEnter your last name to learn its meaning and origin.Most Common Surname by StateStateLast...
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Comedy Is Not Pretty, and Nowadays It Isn’t Even Funny - Note for a...
Joseph Epstein, Wall Street JournalImage (not from article) fromWith sanctimony having replaced humor, the only thing left to laugh at is the farce of politics itself.Excerpt:In a political time as...
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The Case for Merit-Based Immigration
William A. Galston, Wall Street JournalBeyond economics, it makes people feel the system is working in the national interest.As this column goes to press, it appears unlikely that congressional...
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Our Immigration Debate Is Older Than America Herself - Note for a discussion,...
Jason L. Riley, Wall Street JournalBenjamin Franklin once wondered why Pennsylvania should ‘become a Colony of Aliens.’The times may change but the immigration debate endures, with each wave of new...
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States with the most millionaires per capita - Note for a discussion, "E...
Robert Frank, CNBC, USA TODAY image from articleThe U.S. added more than 400,000 new millionaires last year, with most of those concentrated on the coasts in high-tax, predominantly blue...
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Hispanic immigrants are assimilating just as quickly as earlier groups - Note...
Dylan Matthews, Washington Post (January 28, 2013)Image from article, with caption: Today's nativists ain't got nothin' on Bill the Butcher. (Miramax Films)Proponents of immigration reform tend to...
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Reviews of Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's...
See: Samuel Huntington, a prophet for the Trump era - Note for a discussion,"E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United." CarlosLozada, July 18, Washington Post, in Notes and Essays (July...
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Putin’s Cruelty Product of His Extremely Unhappy and Carefully Concealed...
Image (not from entry) from, under the headline "Vladimir Putin's judo prowess called into question amid accusations 'phony' fights staged to bolster macho image"Paul Goble, Windows on EurasiaStaunton,...
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Review: When ‘The Marshall Plan’ Helped Plot a New Course for the West
Wall Street Journal [JB personal note: my father worked for "le plan Marshall" in France and knew "Chip" Bohlen quite well.]Economic aid did not cause a Keynesian miracle but was a diplomatic master...
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In Collective Identities, We Bothe [sic] Lose and Find Ourselves - Note for a...
Wall Street JournalRaces, nations and even generations are thought of as having personalities, talents—even destinies.By Crispin Sartwell Feb. 9, 2018 5:49 p.m. ETHistory is often thought of as a drama...
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Is The New York Times Sexist?
image fromIs The New York Times sexist?Why does it impose gender identification upon individuals in its reporting by preceding their last names with "Mr.""Ms."?Just askin ':)Have a nice day -- or...
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