"A transgressive but historically accurate Lindbergh biopic is set in the early 70s, with flashbacks from his life from '36 through his prewar controversies to his time in Pacific during the war, which violates everyone's sensibilities & preconceptions & that only I would watch"

Some random recs Mitchell G. Klingenberg American historian Aaron Gwyn American lit Aaron Astor American historian Brandan P. Buck: American historian Jack Chambers: urban American historian Bandy: American art poster Bill Coyne just lift, now

“He’s bluffing until he isn’t.” on.ft.com/4gqzXNL

It’s amazing that Bolton’s advice is sought after still on matters of war and peace.

It never occurs to these people that the both sides could lose. The US hasn't fought a proper war in 80 years, and like the rest of the West is in it's biggest recruiting crisis in in 50. We're not going to fight a conventional war with the Russkies, put down the crack pipe.

The M1 Abrams, despite being one of the best tanks ever built, has proven ineffective in Ukraine. ow.ly/bS6930sGrBj

A common refrain from the antigun types is that this country wouldn't abide armed black groups protesting. Except it does, and it did so all through the summer of 2020 (in the allegedly racist South, no less). The only incident I'm aware of was when NFACer ND himself in the foot.

My five year old gets up at six and saunters into my office and asks: "Are you ready for wrestling daddy?"

In the current year, it is considered a virtue to empathize with those with whom we share a planet but not with those with whom we share a neighborhood. I find this weird.

Hannah Arendt wrote that the reason Nazi experimentations and euthanasia were seen as shocking was that Germans were considered the most scientific, advanced and rational society in Europe. It was the logical end of pure scientific rationalism to end the lives of the unwanted.

The anti-federalists were so underrated.