A Patriotic Perspective on Your Own American History

Do you realize…

…that if you were twenty-four in 1970, you would have been born in 1946, and if you met someone who was seventy-one…

Donald Trump finished college almost 50 years ago, on the cusp of the Counterculture. So did I. We didn’t learn much about girls.

Self-immolation was a popular activity in the mid-1960s for Buddhist priests in Vietnam. Not to be outdone, Concordiensis…

Digital Diagnosis in Overdrive

Barry Newman | Longreads | August 2016 | 11 minutes (2,698 words)

My headache arrived just after April Fools’ Day, moving into orbit around my right eye, with side trips to the back of my neck. It was…

Writing about people nobody wants to write about