Past imperfect: In defense of “Back to the Future, Part II.”
The second installment of the "Back to the Future" trilogy is, in many ways, the most thoughtful and interesting of the three.
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Historic Photo: Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland, about 1900.
My history with a tragedy: How TWA Flight 800 taught me about critical thinking.
Behind the Scenes: TWA, The Rise & Fall.
Photo: A beautiful dawn on an ordinary winter day.
Adventures in aggrieved entitlement: The nightmare world of tax protesters.
Interiors: Den at “Slabsides,” John Burroughs’s rustic cabin, West Park, New York.
The Verge
Past imperfect: In defense of “Back to the Future, Part II.”
The second installment of the "Back to the Future" trilogy is, in many ways, the most thoughtful and interesting of the three.
Historic Photo: Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland, about 1900.
Adventures in aggrieved entitlement: The nightmare world of tax protesters.
The lost cataclysm: The Cascadia earthquake and tsunami of 1700.
Historic Painting: “Self-Portrait with Vanitas Symbols” by David Bailly, 1651.
Thin flat plastic slabs of my childhood: Remembering CED videodiscs.
A bunny, boiled: “Fatal Attraction” and my strange history with it.
The Outer Garden
My history with a tragedy: How TWA Flight 800 taught me about critical thinking.
My own history with the terrible 1996 tragedy is a complicated and difficult one.
Photo: A beautiful dawn on an ordinary winter day.
Interiors: Den at “Slabsides,” John Burroughs’s rustic cabin, West Park, New York.
Fire off Long Island: The S.S. Lexington disaster.
A timely warning: The prophetic words of Rutherford B. Hayes.
Year’s end: The best of the Garden in 2025.
Have a wonderful Christmas!
The Inner Garden
Behind the Scenes: TWA, The Rise & Fall.
My latest video delves into the history of one of America's most iconic airlines, now long vanished.
It’s Not Love, Actually: Watch me do an about-face on the world’s worst Christmas movie.
Behind the Scenes: China’s Long Revolution, 1900-1950.
Behind the Scenes: Brazil in the World Wars.
Searching for a story: A look at my chaotic writing process.
Behind the Scenes: The American Revolution, In Its Own Words.
