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Photo of a large crowd at the Altamont Festival, 1969.

What Happened to Rock and Roll After Altamont?

On the Grateful Dead's “New Speedway Boogie,” and the true end of the Sixties.

by Buzz Poole via Literary Hub on December 6, 2019

The End of the Golden Era of Chess

The recent passing of Pal Benko and Shelby Lyman draws the curtain on an American period that produced some of the game’s most sparkling play.

by Peter Nicholas via The Atlantic on September 5, 2019

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; painting by Henry Inman, 1832.

Hail to the Chief

“John Marshall...exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us.”

by Jed S. Rakoff via New York Review of Books on November 22, 2018

Map of western states with straight borders.

Why Are U.S. Borders Straight Lines?

The ever-shifting curve of shoreline and river is no match for the infinite, idealized straight line.

by Ed Simon, David E. Smith, Patrick Spero, Rosemary J. Coombe, Charles Desmond Dutrizac, Harald Bauder, Santa Arias, Geoffrey Kaeuper via JSTOR Daily on October 20, 2018

Collage of paper clippings including headless a running man, an explosion where his head would be, and a jet flying alongside him.

Ante Up: The Scales of Power Seen Through Norman Podhoretz’s Eyes

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.

by Frank Guan via The Point on September 29, 2018

Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.

Hamilton, Madison, and the Paradox at America’s Heart

The tension between nationalist ambitions and republican principles goes all the way back to our nation’s founding.

by Jay Cost via National Review on June 27, 2018

Amazon packages on a conveyor belt.

It's Time For Cities To Stop Giving Tax Breaks To Corporations

To fight back against corporate power, cities have to cooperate, not compete.

by Corey Tazzara via Made By History on May 8, 2018

Men running with their newspapers, one of which says "fake news"

Yellow Journalism: The "Fake News" of the 19th Century

Peddling lies goes back to antiquity, but during the Tabloid Wars of the 19th-century it reached the widespread outcry and fever pitch of scandal familiar today.

by Adam Green via The Public Domain Review on February 21, 2017

Text overlay over a photograph of a WW1 soldier aiming a machine gun over a pile of sandbags.

40 Maps That Explain World War I

Why the war started, how the Allies won, and why the world has never been the same.

by Matthew Yglesias, Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee via Vox on August 14, 2014

Joseph Dennie.

Was the Federalist Press Staid and Apolitical?

Quite the contrary. They used rhetoric to build a partisan community, and realized that parties needed to create and market identities, not simply agendas.

by Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan via Commonplace on October 1, 2008

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