'Tis the season of red.
But is red always just red?
Say you're in the car at a red stoplight on an overcast day in December. Your brain is trained to think red means stop and it's commonsensical isn't it to conclude a red light is always the same red light?
The next day, a bright sunny day, you arrive at the same red light. But the red light you see now isn't ...
At this time of year media fields of all types are blooming with a journalistic genre called "the year in review". These are mega-retrospectives of Big Stuff 2016 news: celebrities, stars, men and women of the year, big news stories, the biggest bests and worsts, big personalities, the most dramatic events. If Rip Van Winkel were to awake to read a ...
Today I made a guest appearance on Jack Out Of The Box as part of a conversation about the constitutionality of the recently introduced Protect the Flag Act. Jack's article and my comments are below.
PROTECT THE FLAG? Sure. PROTECT THE BILL OF RIGHTS? Better.
Ohio Congressman Michael Turner introduced a bill in Congress on December 2 called the ...
If you had to choose a top-ten list of the most important and influential modern books by a professional historian about American history, the list would surely be incomplete without Gordon S. Wood and his Pulitzer Prize winner: "The Radicalism of the American Revolution". Cited by Supreme Court Justices, authoritatively insightful about ...
Online auctions and the larger marketplace for older, original oil paintings are in an interesting new cycle open to all sorts of savvy (and not so savvy) buyers. America is doing its largest intergenerational offloading of stuff, including those proverbial masterpieces in grandma's attic.
Some paintings are, well, better left in the attic ...