A s much as I complain about Amazon, I can't entirely desert it; for one thing, I get my books published there. For another, it ha...

I 've mentioned before that sometimes the most interesting things are hidden in the details; I'd like to think that it's mo...

T his week leads off with an interesting article—well, interesting to me, anyway—by the historian Arthur Schlesinger, who in time will ...

X xne of the things I depend on from classic television is the "inadvertent documentary," the things that once were but no lo...

F r was watching some old Christmas variety specials this week, which put me in mind to look back at this piece from a couple of years...