Monthly Archives: June 2018

At long, overdue last, Sally Hemings is to be accorded the respect she deserves at Monticello. Sally Hemings takes center stage in Monticello on Saturday when the Thomas Jefferson Foundation opens an exhibit in a space where she is said … Continue reading →

An essay in the New York Review of Books looks at the day-to-day lives of ordinary Germans as Hitler rose to power. In They Thought They Were Free, Mayer decided to focus on ten people, different in many respects but … Continue reading →

Jeff Sessions inexplicably cited the Bible yesterday to justify separating the children of illegal border-crossers from their parents. So far as I am able to sort it out, here is what is going on. Federal law forbids housing children with … Continue reading →

The president believes what he wants to believe, creates a reality that fits his delusions, and then insists, with extraordinary energy and stamina, that his delusions are the truth. His psychological illness, moreover, is capable of outlasting anyone else’s mental … Continue reading →

… of its investigation of James Comey and the Clinton e-mail investigation has been released and is available here. It’s 568-pages long, so I haven’t read it yet. I have read the Executive Summary, and it doesn’t point toward anything … Continue reading →