Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing....
In New York if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at...
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's...
The truth is I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then the...
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options....
Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes...
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale New York society woman best known...
My personality when tasked with creating meals goes something like this: Is...
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning even...
If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I...
For most of our history Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from...
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply...
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades...
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one...
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women...
In the history of America we've never had an energy plan. We don't even...
For all history up to the end of the Cold War summit meetings were historic...
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One...
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history which is...