Part four in a series. The terrible specter of nuclear annihilation was now clear in the American mind, a condition that LIFE acknowledged and addressed. But in the months that followed V-J […]
WordsDay: writers who hide, hid, have hidden, or are hiding…
Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure. – Marlon Brando Marlon Brando has long been considered the greatest American actor, perhaps the greatest actor from anywhere, of […]
War and Postwar: a look at LIFE and technology
Part three in a series. In an age and a culture dominated by scientism, the word “sample†tends to invoke the adjectival “representative,†and I cannot begin to imagine culling a meaningful […]
LIFE and the long view: ideologies of science and technology since the Enlightenment
Part two in a series. As I suggested in Part One, the messianic/utopian view of science and technology attributed to LIFE Magazine is consistent with an ideological bent that traces its lineage […]
Book Review: Mr. Adams's Last Crusade
by Chris Mackowski Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams’s Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan PublicAffairs Publishing Fewer families in America have had a greater influence on the country […]
WordsDay: Entropy in literature
Ozymandias Source: Jack Cohen Art, Shadows exhibit The universe is destined to die. Some physicists believe that this death will occur as the rate of expansion tears every atom apart. Others believe […]
Tomorrow: VerseDay –> WordsDay
Beginning tomorrow, S&R’s weekly literature feature, VerseDay, becomes WordsDay. We love poetry, but we felt like we were ignoring other literary forms, so it just made sense to expand the field. WordsDay […]
We can't take Iraq neat, we need a chaser
The upcoming presidential election and the economy are pretty poor excuses for our inability to focus on Iraq. Especially since we’ve not only passed the 4,000 mark of American dead, but 25 […]
No country for the middle class: Scenes from an economic disaster
By Martin Bosworth I recently had the pleasure of seeing “No Country For Old Men,” the Oscar-winning adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel of a drug deal gone bad and how one man’s […]
ArtSunday: the fruit that changed the world
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the Worldby Dan Koeppel Hudson Street Press (December 27, 2007) by Chris Mackowski I fell for Dan Koeppel’s new book like a man slipping […]
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