The Beauty in the Beast: The Daily Beast‘s choice of illustrations hints at the […]
Mass Appeal
Unguided Missal? Mass composer Leonard Bernstein in 1971. Last week on The New Yorker’s website, […]
Of Mice, Pumpkins, And Former Presidents
Sometime after the transition in January of 1969, President Richard Nixon asked his predecessor, Lyndon […]
Running Against Hooverville–The Presidential Blame Game
In the immediate aftermath of the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, President John F. […]
37’s Resolutions for ‘69 and ‘70
RN 1970: A photograph by portraitist Merrett Smith. On the night of 6 February 1969 […]
President Obama’s Vocal Minority Speech
1 December 2009 and 3 November 1969: the desire to contain a vocal minority and […]
Helen Gahagan Douglas Redux
I apologize in advance for the shameless bit of name dropping that is about to […]
The Great Pennsylvania Debate – in McKeesport
Presidential debates, especially the intra-party variety we are witnessing these days, are frequent to the […]