Archive for July 2012
We have met the enemy and he is us
James Madison and Walt Kelly, creator of the Pogo comic strip, had this much in common: they both concluded that we are the problem. Kelly issued his most famous pronouncement —…
Read MoreNow for something Very Different!
David O. Stewart, novelist? Pretty soon. The following notice just ran on Publishers Marketplace: “Author of SUMMER OF 1787, the recently published AMERICAN EMPEROR, on Aaron Burr, and a forthcoming…
Read MoreWednesday marked the 208th anniversary of the duel between Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, former Secretary of the Treasury. In the dawn hours, each traveled to a lonesome…
Read MoreThe Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past
Three recent events reinforce the wisdom of this remark by William Faulkner in Requiem for a Nun. First, the New York Times is starting a series of pieces to be written…
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