Charles Petersen

And more on how the first "Big Men on Campus," Herbert Hoover, and friends, kept charge in the university, in the workplace, and on the national stage.

Reflections on Pavement, Nirvana, the very meaning of history, and the end of neoliberalism.

And why won't all the worst people stop talking about it?

And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.

Why do people hike?

Reflections on the ahistorical, aristocratic, and romanticist approach to "nature" elevated by John Muir, and by his admirer, Ken Burns.