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Black History Month Is Canceled…
…at Harpers Ferry. The February calendar at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is blank. No events scheduled. Until after this Jan. 4, every Sunday featured an hour-long history talk (“The…
Read MoreThe End of the [Book] World
NOTE: Feb. 21, 2026 — It was a bittersweet night at the iconic indie bookstore Politics and Prose in Northwest DC…
Read MoreDemocracy Dies in Darkness. Indeed!
As I write this, I am reading about the utter destruction and decimation of the Washington Post staff by Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the newspaper since 2013, who…
Read More“The future of New York is Queens.”
“The future of New York is Queens.” — Gary Shteyngart, New York Times, Dec. 28, 2025 And now, a pause from current events for a bit of personal nostalgia from…
Read MoreAIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND
My final edition No, not of this blog but as the editor of B’nai B’rith Magazine, the eclectic Jewish magazine I’ve been proud to helm for 16 years. The current…
Read MorePresident Garfield is having a moment. It’s about time!
He was the 20th president, whose short time in office was cut even shorter by an assassin’s bullet. President James A. Garfield has long been forgotten and ignored — until…
Read MoreHave you no sense of decency?
Americans were glued to their black and white TV sets for the 34 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, at the height of the red-baiting McCarthy era. An estimated…
Read More166 years later, John Brown’s soul goes marching on.
One hundred and sixty-six years ago this weekend, abolitionist John Brown led a small band of 18 men to the federal arsenal town of Harpers Ferry at the confluence of…
Read MoreMy Lai, William Calley, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump
More than half a century ago, the military prosecuted and convicted Lt. William Calley for the murder of “not less than 22” unarmed Vietnamese in the hamlet of My Lai…
Read More“Pioneers of the Press”
Pioneers of the Press. A book–and a legacy to honor and uphold Sixty-five years ago, my father Gerard Previn Meyer wrote a book called “Pioneers of the Press.” The publisher…
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