I didn’t write anything here a few months ago on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the assassination of John Lennon. Although Lennon and the Beatles were a constant in my life growing up I didn’t exist at the time of his death and as such never felt qualified to comment on his legacy. [...]
My anonymous sources inside the Beltway have pointed me towards a great article by Bob Woodward in today’s Washington Post detailing how he came to be friends with Mark Felt, “the guy they called Deep Throat.” He tells the story of their first meetings and then how Felt became an informant, including the famous underground [...]
History is full of those era-defining moments when everyone stops what they’re doing, turns to their radio, television, or computer, and simply watches with awe and terror. For my parents generation it was the 1963 shooting of John F. Kennedy or the killings of Dr. King and RFK. For those of us too young to [...]
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