The Verge Historic Photo: Nagasaki, Japan, 1865. This photo was taken just as two eras in Japan's history were in chaotic collision.
The Upcoming Class on my Website: “The Origins of 9/11.” My new online course seeks to fill in some of the blind spots we have about this critical event.
Sorry to intrude, but we have to talk about the climate crisis. I insist. You know those big hurricanes that are destroying the U.S. East Coast? Scientists have been warning us about them for decades.
Antonioni’s “Zabriskie Point”: a terrible, senseless and fascinating film. A truly awful film that even its star denounced as "a big lie," Antonioni's bizarre 1970 counterculture epic has some interesting implications.