We here at Tropics of Meta–and our sister podcast Doomed to Repeat–have been thinking about Russia for a […]
Cold War
Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was a world-renowned choreographer who broke many barriers of race and gender, most notably as […]
Why is the sixty-five year-old spy case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg back in the news? Anderson Cooper […]
Years ago, I was in a stupid bar on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We used to […]
On September 1, 1964, Masanori Murakami threw a scoreless eighth inning for the San Francisco Giants. Amid a […]
Since electronic computers were declassified at the end of World War II, journalists, social theorists, and ordinary people […]
Democracy is a funny word. In the strictest sense, it means “government by the people,” with decisions made […]
In a previous post earlier this week, I lamented the mediocrity yielded by the manic rush of TV […]