Posts Tagged ‘United States’

The Cincinnati Daguerreotypes of 1848

Exploring in high detail an America that was newly industrializing and soon to war with itself

Expect a lot of Republican talk about the apocalypse

As Richard Nixon understood, anger and resentment are the ties that bind American conservatism

The incoherence of the Republican battle in Iowa

GOP social and economic policies are incoherent and none of the candidates knows how to hide that


Are American conservatives the new French?

Libya suggests that conservatives want chest-beating glory more than they want success

And God will give Gov. Rick Perry a dog whistle

Yesterday’s prayer rally gave us Rick Perry, sectarian leader, dooming his shot at the presidency

The wisdom of the New York Times comments section

Times readers know the debt ceiling debate is bogus, but it works on them anyway


Patti Smith sends me to the Chelsea Hotel

The Chelsea, she writes, was like a doll’s house in the Twilight Zone. Indeed.

The unlikely face of hip-hop

Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop explored the boundaries of sound

Letter from Japan the day WWII ended

My grandfather’s firsthand account of the destruction of Japanese cities


Remembering Studs Terkel

It would have been the great oral historian’s 99th birthday today

Watching Dante in 3-D in a cathedral, and other New York transgressions

For a night, the New Museum turns all of Nolita into a video art space

Rare color images of the Great Depression

The Depression in color is caught between deprivation and an idealized small-town American life


Guerlain container: Paris, late-19th century

A 19th C container by Guerlain, the French perfume house, ends up on the Bowery in New York