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"The First Beverly Hillbilly" Semi-Review
A microcosm of America's developmental trajectory?
I’ve had this book—The First Beverly Hillbilly: The Untold Story of the Creator of Rural TV Comedy—on my shelf since September or October 2019. I visited my parents in New Jersey that Sept...
A Store Of History
Here is a little biographical information about an old building in Oakton, in Fairfax County, Virginia:
The schoolhouse was built about 1897 on Chain Bridge Road near its intersection with Hunter Mill Road and had additions put on in 190...
Dematerialization And Sacramentalism
I wrote recently about Sony’s controversial decision to discontinue new PlayStation discs, with games released after January 2028 being distributed digitally only, without physical media.
In that piece I went through the arguments that are...
New and Old #275
How the Amish Let Technology in Without Letting It Take Over, The MIT Press Reader, Lindsay Ems, July 27, 2026
This is great:
[I]t was at this inflection point — when everyone seemed to be emphatically saying yes to technology — that I...
An Initial Attempt At An Urbanism/Pro-Family Dialogue
People who love cities and people who love kids need to talk (more)
One of the reasons I write this newsletter, and write about these broad urbanism topics, is to “translate” these ideas to a regular audience: to try and convey that despit...
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