Musings & Amusings
Robert S. McElvaineCommentaries on, as Dickens wrote in "Our Mutual Friend," “things warious.” I’m a bit dyslexic; my brain mixes things together, which can lead to seeing connections between things that others see as unrelated. I hope you'll like the results.
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Grow a Pair of Ovaries, Republicans! — Where Is Our Margaret Chase Smith?
Seventy-six years ago today, on June 1, 1950, Maine Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith demonstrated the sort of courage in the face of an obnoxious bully and inveterate liar that others in her party then and now decline to do.
Almost a y...
The Highs in Sports are Much Higher than the Lows are Low
I realize that most of my readers will not care much about my topic today. Consider it a “point of personal privilege.”
As a New York sports fan — and one who has always despised the Yankees — I have known disappointments too numerous to r...
For Your Weekend Amusement & Musing
Welcome back to “Musings & Amusings,” and greetings to those of you who are new.
Musings & Amusings is a reader-supported publication. If my writing helps you through these terrible times or gives you a needed smile from time t...
From the Great Society to The Great Betrayal
(L) LBJ giving commencement address at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964.
(R) 1964 Herblock cartoon depicting what Barry Goldwater’s movement was doing to the Republican Party in 1964. I have updated it show what has hap...
Is THIS, at Long Last, Something Beyond Shooting Somebody in the Middle of Fifth Avenue?
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.”
— Donald J. Trump, Sioux City, Iowa, Jan 23, 2016
“I love the poorly educated.”
— Donald J. Trump, Las Vega...
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Author, historian, feminist, believer in democracy—placing current developments in historical context. Author of 11books. Current book project: “An Agreed-Upon Fiction—The creation of the ‘Inferior’ Sex: Hoe It Misshaped History & the Present.”
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