September 2014 – What About Paris?

American Authentic: Ben Bradlee is 93, ailing and irreplaceable.

You had a lot of Cuban or Spanish-speaking guys in masks and rubber gloves, with walkie-talkies, arrested in the Democratic National Committee […]

Forget for a moment about the “failed” Scottish independence vote yesterday, Wall Street, Jack Ma, Alibaba’s NYSE debut and the “10 most […]

Ain’t no way in the world I’m going out that front door. –Sonny Boy Williamson, Marshall Sehorn and Elmore James

Last Friday night I saw Rory Kennedy’s documentary Last Days in Viet Nam at the E Street Cinema, in Northwest Washington, D.C. […]

Update as of 10 pm Scottish time/5 pm EST: Most UK and American news sources have it that 5 hours after the […]

United States Naval Academy, graduating class of 1894

People lie about the influence of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying; they never lie about the power of Shotgun by Junior Walker […]

One of the great things about America and having a higher education is that after listening to a POTUS speech or chat […]

Over the past 8 years we’ve marveled at and fallen hopelessly in love with the peripatetic Ms. Montague, an American expat of […]

Over the past 8 years we’ve marveled at and fallen hopelessly in love with the peripatetic Ms. Montague, an American expat of […]

We are still trying to fix this. Over the last 6 months we have been blogspam-bombed to the tune of nearly 1000 […]

Compliments of the Library of Congress and yeoman labors by the Yale University photo archive, there are over 170,000 pictures taken between […]

Once again, Cultural Literacy, anyone? What should we all know about, anyway? What does it mean to be educated? See in The […]

A current Rolling Stone feature by Matthieu Aikins covers the Kabul expat community from government contract boon days to the present, giving […]