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Europe and the US 24 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am
Three years ago, a Chicago labor lawyer named Thomas Geoghegan--a nearly exact contemporary of mine and a fellow Harvard graduate--published his sixth book, Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? How t...
Jackie Robinson, GI 17 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
Some months ago I reviewed the film 42, which I found very disappointing because the Jackie Robinson on the screen had so little in common with the real man. Two weeks ago, at the convention of t...
The collapse of international politics? 10 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
In 1990 I published Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler, which was in many ways my most ambitious book and the one that took the longest time to write. It was a comparative s...
Sleepless in Hollywood--addendum 4 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
I realized today I had forgotten a very important point from the weekend's post, and I am making it a separate one to try to make sure everyone sees it. Ms. Obst talks a lot about the obsessio...
Cultural decline at the movies 4 Aug 2013 | 02:13 am
This week I have been reading Sleepless in Hollywood, by a Hollywood producer named Linda Obst. She is a Boomer, born 1950, and she got into the movie business because, as she puts it, she loved mo...
Rights and privileges 28 Jul 2013 | 06:33 am
Today, checking out the Washington Post, I came across this article on the subject of "white privilege." It's a concept I've encountered before--indeed, it apparently cost me one budding friendship w...
The relentless Republicans 27 Jul 2013 | 07:29 am
My late friend Bill Strauss, who co-wrote Generations and The Fourth Turning with Neil Howe, used to argue back in the early 2000s that the break-up of the country was a genuine threat. He thought ...
Martin and Zimmerman 20 Jul 2013 | 07:01 pm
The Anglo-American legal system has developed over many centuries. Most Americans probably have no idea that the colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries brought English common law principles with th...
On Hannah Arendt 13 Jul 2013 | 03:53 am
This week my wife and I saw the German film Hannah Arendt, which focuses on her coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961-2 for The New Yorker and the heated controversy over the resulting b...
Cultural decline 6 Jul 2013 | 04:57 am
For nearly two months now, I have been living once again in the Boston area, where I spent nearly the entire period 1965-80. Much is changed, much is the same. Public transportation is better th...
