Happy Birthday, Teddy October 27th, 2017 @ 6:26 am PDT
Teddy Roosevelt, the Original Rough Rider
Let’s Go to Civita di Bagnoregio September 26th, 2017 @ 6:41 am PDT
#FridayFive: Roman Holiday June 23rd, 2017 @ 7:37 am PDT
My favorite places in the city on seven hills
Ernest Hemingway: American Sniper? February 7th, 2017 @ 6:36 am PDT
The first casualty of war is the truth.
Twenty Thousand Hertz January 19th, 2017 @ 5:42 pm PDT
A podcast recommendation
Never Forget December 29th, 2015 @ 7:44 am PDT
Today is the 125th anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as an assignment in high school and then I read it again on my own a few years after college. It’s heart-wrenching and awful, and certainly one of the most important pieces of […]
In the Arena April 23rd, 2015 @ 7:28 am PDT
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who […]
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor, Opus 27, No. 2 March 2nd, 2015 @ 10:14 am PDT
According to The Writer’s Almanac: Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata was published on this date in 1802. Its real name is the slightly less evocative “Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor, Opus 27, No. 2,” and its Italian subtitle is translated as “almost a fantasy.” In 1832, five years after Beethoven’s death, a German critic […]
Zapruder November 22nd, 2014 @ 12:30 pm PDT
The Essex November 20th, 2014 @ 8:42 am PDT
On this date in 1820, a sperm whale attacked a whaling ship off the coast of South America. The Essex hailed from Nantucket, Massachusetts, and was captained by George Pollard Jr. Pollard was only 29, the youngest man to ever command a whaling ship; the Essex, by contrast, was pretty old, and she was also […]
