Review round-up on AMC American Revolution spy series “Turn”
Early reviews are in on Turn, the new AMC series based upon Alexander Rose’s book Washington’s Spies. Media critics: Marlow Stern at The Daily Beast Piya SinhaRoy from Reuters Willa Paskin on Slate Historians: J.L. Bell at Den of Geek Michael Schellhammer at Journal of the American Revolution And, take a look at this: […]
Founding fathers did [fill in the blank], so it must be OK! That’s the logic senate candidate uses to defend… cockfighting
This is absurd, of course, but in a way very telling. Matt Bevin, who is challenging Mitch McConnell in the Kentucky Republican senatorial primary, here defends his appearance at a rally promoting, I kid you not dear readers, cockfighting. when you look at cockfighting and dogfighting as well…This isn’t something new, it wasn’t invented in […]
Next step, Obama in breeches? Organizing for Action uses Gadsden flag
Organizing for Action, the political organization descended from Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, is now giving out bumper stickers inspired by the Gadsden flag that tea partiers have loved so much. What’s interesting to me is how stylized this flag is. I think the stethoscope is clear, but the graphic and caption on it wouldn’t make […]
Official title for my book: Fighting over the Founders
Finally official: my book, which will be coming out with NYU Press at the end of the year, will be titled Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution. You read it here first! (The title, that is, not the book. Blog is free; book will cost you).
Five years on, tea party part of the visual landscape
The picture on the left accompanied an article in today’s New York Times about young Republicans at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. The article makes a point of profiling a young Republican with a green-and-orange mohawk. But to me, what’s more interesting is that it does not comment at all on the man on the right, […]