I haven’t spent a tremendous amount of time in Washington D.C.’s Eastern Market. What I found the last time I was there, however, spoke volumes…
Every nation, every community, has rituals and observances that bind it together. Every year, Russians celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory in their Great Patriotic War…
American conservatives have a funny relationship with their American patriotism, and really with the whole of American nationality itself. The central feast on the American…
Many non-Americans enjoy teasing Americans about our habit of identifying ourselves using ethnic and cultural descriptors from Old World societies. Looking across this nation, “hyphenated…
Americans love to indulge, watch, analyze and discuss their nation pastime, and my national pastime I don’t mean baseball, I mean outrage. Americans enjoy more…
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across…
If you have paid close attention to the news lately, which I sincerely hope you have not, a particular items came to public light that…
“It may be a great advance in knowledge not to believe in witches: there is no moral advance in not executing them when you do…
“This is boring.” “Do we have to do this?” “What’s the point?” If you hear these phrases more than once a day, or perhaps more…
The 2019 death of Jeffrey Epstein and the cultural reaction to it will go down as one of the most bizarre episodes in the history…