Behaving Badly
In The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic (2023), constitutional...
Beans II
In the fictional town of Chamisaville in the Southwestern United States, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Cipriano García—stark...
Beans
It took me less than half a century to get around to reading one of the classic books of my...
I Have a Question for You
A few thousand years ago or so, during the Golden Age of his city, a man wandered the streets engaging...
Hearts & Minds
“We can’t hope to win the Cold War unless we remember what we [the United States] are for as well...
Remember the Ladies
Less than four months before the United States formally declared independence from Great Britain, John Adams and other members of...
Bernie
We have all been discouraged from judging a book by examining only its cover. While the idiom typically stands as...
The Diggers
In the twenty-first century, Cobalt (Co on the periodic table) has become a highly valued commodity; one of the few...
Elmore Leonard
I was chatting with my neighbor a while back and he mentioned Elmore Leonard. After a few minutes, it occurred...
Louis Le Prince
In 1888, French inventor Louis Le Prince used a device the world had never seen to capture the first known...
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