We here at Tropics of Meta–and our sister podcast Doomed to Repeat–have been thinking about Russia for a […]

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 […]