
“A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step,” my horoscope said. I’ll literally be taking a journey of a thousand-plus miles when I get to China in another week, but […]
“A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step,” my horoscope said. I’ll literally be taking a journey of a thousand-plus miles when I get to China in another week, but […]
The arrival of The Beatles in February of 1964 and the subsequent cultural changes they fostered (whether consciously or not) paralleled momentous changes in the American social and political landscape. From 1964-70 […]
The Boomer generation’s view of war and the purposes of war was and is the result of United States involvement in Vietnam. Unlike subsequent generations, Boomers (at least males and tangentially females) […]
Ceci n’est pas Pink #@#@^&%$ Floyd… Historians often argue that dates should not be the focus of history. Hell, much of the last quarter century has been dominated by intellectuals arguing that […]
America’s First Family, Boomer parents’ edition The Boomers are the first TV generation. We’ve been intimates of television since its infancy as the mass medium of choice for Americans. Because of television’s […]
by Djerrid Hi everyone! Sorry for posting two days early last week. Now back to your regularly scheduled program.
Not Mr. Jones…. Everything starts somewhere. This series of posts starts from a thoughtful post by Sara Robinson over at Campaign for America’s Future that our colleague Russ Wellen alerted us to. […]
Today one of my good friends will stand before a judge in the company of her husband and dissolve her marriage. It is in one respect a common act, though rarely uneventful: […]
If you’ve been off-planet for the last few months you may have missed the news: Jon & Kate have split, and in the process migrated from the relative banality of the TV […]
After eighteen years, I finally got around to reading Douglas Coupland’s Generation X—the novel that literally defined my generation. In a way, that makes Generation X sort of like the Moby Dick for […]