Showing posts with label U.S.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S.. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Apollo 11--Apogee of White America?

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 Watched the documentary film Apollo 11 l ast night. Seeing it 54 years after the original offered a certain perspective, not to mention col...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

I Remember the Lord's Prayer

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 Sometime in the early 1950's our morning routine in my school changed.  IIRC at just before 8 am the principal would come the loudspeak...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Holton and Constitution

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 Reading Woody  Holton " Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution ".  Some arguments he stresses: the Founding Fathers...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

KISS and the Constitution

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 Reading Woody Holton's " Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution ". I'm about halfway through but already ha...
Friday, May 07, 2021

Upward Mobility

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 Ran across a statistic about the Forbes 400 billionaires so did a search with this result: " When we first created the self-made score...
Monday, October 19, 2020

What's Good in America?

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 From Cesar Hidalgo  comes a twitter thread describing three things he finds good about America (although he's leaving for more academic...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Our Schizoid History-I

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 Someday I may write more on this, but here's a placeholder: Throughout our history white America has had a schizoid attitude towards sl...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

In Partial Defense of Andy Jackson

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Protesters tried to take down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park last night. Jackson's reputation has suffered a great dec...
Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Tom Friedman in NYTimes

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Last week Friedman had a doom and gloom op-ed in the Times, rather surprising given his past optimism.  He argues three trends have made the...
Friday, May 01, 2020

The Wearing of Hats

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One of the things which fascinate me is the wearing of hats in the US. If you look at pictures showing massed men in the 1920's/30...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

The Lack of Governmental Infrastructure

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One of things crisis  fighters run into is the lack of governmental infrastructure.  In the Great Recession a bit part of the problem in h...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Count Me a Pollyanna

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I know President Trump has support for his China policy from many Democratic politicians and in academia and the chattering classes.  The co...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Our Vanishing Churches--a Miscellany

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That's the title of John Phipps  post  on AGweb.  It's an eloquent analysis of the plight of small rural churches, getting smaller a...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Connectedness: the NYTimes Map

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The NYTimes has an interactive map showing how people are connected by Facebook, which allows them to show the impact of distance: briefly,...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Japan and America

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Via Marginal Revolution, a Mental Floss post of 10 tips for Japanese visiting the US.  Provides a glimpse of the cultural differences betw...
Thursday, March 03, 2016

U.S. Is Okay

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Two observations about the current state of life in the U.S: a new book getting rave reviews is a sociologist's study of evictions in ...