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The idiocy and futility of conflict with Iran.
Historic Painting: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by John Forrest, 2012.
The book(s) I’m working on: “Faraway Star” and “Wild Among the Moons.”
The ship that sank a neighborhood: the General Slocum disaster.
My secret profession: Am I actually a CIA agent?
Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.
The Verge
Interiors: Kitchen of Roman-era house of Lucius Maticeius Clemens, 4th c. CE.
Historic Painting: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by John Forrest, 2012.
The ship that sank a neighborhood: the General Slocum disaster.
Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.
Not a “good” bad movie: Revisiting “The Room” and its terrible human failings.
Historic Photo: First class dining room of the ocean liner Grosser Kurfürst, 1905.
Standing the test: “Somewhere In Time’s” romantic audacity.
The Outer Garden
The idiocy and futility of conflict with Iran.
Everything about the decision to attack Iran is wrong. Every. Single. Thing.
My secret profession: Am I actually a CIA agent?
Historian vs. AI: The technology sucks and is basically a scam.
Nuclear war: The existential threat we don’t talk about.
Nothingburger: The 2025 JFK Assassination document dump.
Historic Painting: “Katharsis” by José Clemente Orozco, 1934.
Historic Photo: Native American ice-cutting crew in winter, 1880s.
The Inner Garden
The book(s) I’m working on: “Faraway Star” and “Wild Among the Moons.”
Here's a brief introduction to the book(s) I'm working on, a very old science fiction concept whose time may finally have come.
Behind the Scenes: Mexico in World War II.
Behind the Scenes: The Bounty, a geographic history.
Behind the Scenes: 1981, Britain’s Awful Year.
Behind the Scenes: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Explained & Deconstructed.
The strangest dictator: The odd world of Moammar Qaddafi.
