Local history may be about to repeat itself in suburban St. Louis, as another well-established African-American neighborhood faces extinction by buyout, demolition and commercial
Category: History
A review of “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution”, by China Mieville
Centennials don’t have much objective relevance, but they are marked nonetheless. It shouldn’t surprise, then, that everyone from The New York Times to Alex
It’s harder to be a Howard Baker now than then
Political observers such as David Gergen and Jeffrey Toobin have said that what we need now is another Howard Baker. For those who may
Comey firing is worse than Watergate
Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey is worse than Nixon’s 1973 Saturday Night Massacre. Sure, just as Trump is doing now, Nixon acted out his
Sean Spicer: Holocaust denier?
Where did Sean Spicer’s incredibly ignorant and offensive remark about Adolf Hitler “not using chemical weapons on his own people” come from? I watched
Supreme Court surprises: You don’t always get what you want
How will the next justice appointed to the Supreme Court vote? The answer, history tells us, is: We don’t know for sure. Surprises happen.
Political quotes: Absurdities
Is Trump unique? No. He’s just the latest in a long line of demagogues and false populists who use deceit and “alternative facts” to
Will democracy outlast Trump? Only if we work at it
How does American democracy outlast Trump? We are about to experience the presidency of the least experienced, least qualified, most uninformed, most autocratic and
Bluster and saber-rattling: effective tools of foreign policy?
Mark Moyar wrote a fascinating editorial in The New York Times the other day. In “The World Fears Trump’s America. That’s a Good Thing,”
Comparing Trump and Hitler: Uncomfortable but necessary
Before the 2016 election, some historians and journalists compared Trump’s ascension with Hitler’s rise to power in Germany before World War II. Now that