Historic Photo: Kids at an L.A. Halloween Party, 1935.
This is what Halloween looked like 89 years ago.
Sean Munger
The Upcoming Class on my Website: “The Origins of 9/11.”
My new online course seeks to fill in some of the blind spots we have about this critical event.
A mid-autumn blog hiatus.
You won't hear from me for a few days, but there's a lot going on behind the scenes.
Watch “Roundhay Garden Scene,” the world’s very first motion picture—all 2 seconds of it.
This 2-second clip launched the entirety of world cinema.
Sorry to intrude, but we have to talk about the climate crisis. I insist.
You know those big hurricanes that are destroying the U.S. East Coast? Scientists have been warning us about them for decades.
The strangest dictator: The odd world of Moammar Qaddafi.
The Libyan despot thought of himself as a fashion icon, a car designer and believed his political opponents were on LSD.
Antonioni’s “Zabriskie Point”: a terrible, senseless and fascinating film.
A truly awful film that even its star denounced as "a big lie," Antonioni's bizarre 1970 counterculture epic has some interesting implications.