Category: History

Everyone except for the dinosaurs

Samuel Bollen on Dinosaurs.

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A Prince at Princeton

In September 1940, Japan’s prime minister, Konoe Fumimaro, concluded the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy, committing the three countries to support each other against the United States in the event of American entry into World War II.

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Living History

Amidst the empty pews and graying hair, she is proof that, while the story she tells may be hidden, it is still very much alive.

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Ghosts of Berggasse 19

“You are buzzed in after a moment, as if you are entering a doctor’s office, as if you are a patient, as if the Freud, whose eyes stare out from the tiers of brochures in the museum’s front room, will tell you in due time what your dreams mean.”

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Jewish Wisdom

Love, lust, and etsah in the Orange Bubble.

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Dylan is the New Dante

“More than anything, Dylan and Dante share an unbroken sense of pity for the ‘ill-begotten souls’ of hell. Both in the position of outsiders looking-in, this subversion of time, space, and reality is what makes hell so mystical, and this carnival of characters is what makes hell so unsettling.”

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Remembrance, not Recollection

A writer reflects on history as a collective pursuit in his Jewish tradition.

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Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation

“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”

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Books@ Cafe

The rich history of a gay café in Amman, Jordan and the social change it inspired in a complex metropolis

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Pointing Fingers

“My point that I’m not pointing starts with the Scopes Trial.”

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Witness Theater

Art, trauma, and the Holocaust

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Neighbors with Nazis

Fernand Lépinay is a friend of my grandparents who lives outside of the small town of Laigle in the rainy Orne department of Lower Normandy.

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