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.
The Verge
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.
The stupidest Presidential campaign in American history.
While Putin schemes and the world burns from climate change, the candidates are talking about eating house pets and working at McDonald's. What gives?
Historic Photo: Two great liners, Olympic and Mauretania, about to die.
Two of the greatest-ever ocean liners are about to be sent to the scrap yards.
A brief history of Presidential debates.
There's no evidence that they matter, but they certainly are memorable.
Historic Painting: “Pollice Verso” by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872.
"AM I NOT MERCIFUL??!!!?!?!?"