As the recent July 4 holiday reminded, America isn’t fond of royalty — unless they’re showing up in the celebrity gossip. In fact, the Declaration of Independence lays out a laundry list of what King George III did to establish an “absolute tyranny” in the colonies. But he never went so far as to kick […]
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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Pay Attention! (“Happiness is absorption.”) The Dangerous Lies We Tell About America’s Founding (“If we get lazy about our historical facts, we risk accepting at face value the interpretation of those facts we’re being fed.”) Blog Headline of the Week Photogenic Felon’s Modeling Contract Means Doom For Us […] I’ve long been a fan of H.L. Mencken, the iconoclastic journalist and critic of the early 20th Century. Just last summer I read A Religious Orgy in Tennessee, a collection of his coverage of the “Scopes Monkey Trial” for the Baltimore Evening Sun. That’s why I was surprised this week to discover I was unaware […] |
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