“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
At its best, history lets us skip across time, our imaginations settling us into a place well beyond our years or our ability to have witnessed events. Good historians find the moments that will help us make metaphysical visits. For example, in Guelzo’s Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, on the third day of the battle, the Confederate cannonade prior to the launch of Pickett’s Charge was likely the loudest sound […]
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The Democrats are taking power in the House and preparing the long process of choosing a candidate to nominate for President, Trump is beginning year 3 of his tenure and Robert Mueller continues to push forward on his mob-boss, Russian infiltration, obstruction of justice investigation. Now is as good a time as any, before the heat becomes even more intense, for us to try to figure out in black […]
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This is the season when we dream on resurrection. We think of those who are gone and wish them with us if only for a meal or conversation .. or for one night. If they are far enough away in time, our memory begins to lose them — their voices, especially, but the quicksilver, mercurial wonder of them, the ways that the smallest shifts in their posture or expression made […]
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I am a dog man and have been since I was 4 or 5 when a big hound wandered into our yard and my mother fed him a pot of stew. I watched him gulp it up, this marvelous, vivid creature, not me or of mine own array of the familiar alive, but somehow kin. When she told me, days later, that he had been hit and killed by a […]
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