Posts Tagged ‘Trump’
The Big Birthday Bust
So I was in downtown DC the other day, emerging from the Gallery Place Metro station. There were half a dozen National Guardsmen standing around looking at their phones and…
Read MoreWorld Capital Germania
Haunting echoes of the past. In his book Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945, author Ian Buruma writes about Hitler’s grand plan to remake the city into the World Capital Germania. It…
Read MoreWhen “1984” was just fiction.
Remember when 1984 was fiction, and a year so far in the future when George Orwell published his novel in 1949 that it seemed impossible? The CIA smuggled copies behind the…
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 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…
Read MoreBirthright Citizenship: It’s Personal
My grandparents were immigrants. My parents were both born in this country and thereby became “birthright citizens,” a right affirmed by the 14th amendment to the Constitution enacted in 1868…
Read MoreGenerations: Past, Present, and Future
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about generations. My thoughts are prompted in part by much ado about President Biden, who is 80, and not enough ado about DJT, who…
Read MoreHarriet Newby’s “One Bright Hope”
“I want you to buy me as soon as possible, for if you do not get me some body else will,” Harriet, an enslaved house servant, wrote on this day…
Read MorePearl Harbor Day 2020
Dec. 7, 1941 – 79 years ago today – may indeed be a date that lives in infamy, even if barely remembered. A total of 2,403 died that day from…
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