History Unfolding

 Last Thursday afternoon, I received my Moderna booster and a flu shot.  I experienced a much more severe reaction than I had for either of ...

It was about nine and a half years ago that I wrote the post reproduced below, about half way through the Obama Administration.  Thanks to i...

 My new book in progress, States of the Union, 1789-2021 --a concise political history of the US based on presidential addresses--is now com...

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to journalists from the Philippines and Russia this past week piqued my curiosity about what sort of pers...

Here is this week's post,  my interview with Glenn Loury about certain biases in history.   It lasts about 50 minutes.