History Unfolding

 About two weeks ago, I read Regime Change , the account by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan  Swann of Trump's first year in office. I did n...

 It has been some time since I've compared front pages of the New York Times from eighty years apart.  The eighty year cycle is key to t...

        Some weeks ago, an article alerted me to a new academic novel, Lords of Serendipity , by an English prof named Randy Boyagoda.  He w...

 One of my sons got AI to read every post in this blog and summarize it.  I think every regular reader will enjoy the results--I certainly d...

 I spent the last week in Paris, which for me makes for days of restaurants, movies, bookstores, and museums.  When I was living in Cambridg...