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Our Turn to Serve
From a restaurant in Gaithersburg, Maryland this evening, November 11.
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Road Report, Gaithersburg
This was a day of travel-related travails of many sorts. Had expected to be en route to Mississippi on an American Futures-related update trip. Instead (seemingly) unrelated but mounting mechanical and...
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Chinese and American Education: First-Hand Compare-and-Contrast
The two elementary schools Jocelyn Reckford has attended, and written about. From her site. The American public is hearing a lot about the values imparted by U.S. education at the moment, from the...
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More on Chinese and American Schools
High school students in a rural school in Gansu province, western China, 2009 (James Fallows) Two days ago I mentioned an interesting site by a high school student named Jocelyn Reckford, who had spent...
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The Ballast Point Unicorn: Big News in the World of Small(ish) Beers
Have been off the grid, mainly in Mississippi, so here is a good-news way to ease back in.Sculpin IPA, from the Ballast Point site1) Ballast Point Bonanza. I’ve long enjoyed Ballast Point beers, from...
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In Which I Agree With Senator Inhofe
A few of the thousands of owner-flown small aircraft that gather each summer for the Oshkosh AirVenture convention (Experimental Aircraft Association) I have not always been in perfect alignment with...
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Coach Belichick: Cheater? Maybe. Chickenhawk? No.
Tennessee Titans cheerleaders honoring the troops last week. (AP / James Kenney) Let’s continue our saga of the professional sports-world’s embrace of military imagery, costuming, and...
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Tech Update: Magic That Works, Magic That Doesn't
Front courtyard of The Queen’s College, Oxford, recently, in a panorama that Google Photos automatically created from several overlapping smart-phone shots. Here is a link to the same composite picture...
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The Modern Bounty of Mississippi
Three years ago, craft brewing was essentially illegal in Mississippi. Now the industry is taking off. Here are a few local examples, purchased in West Point, Miss., last week. I have exactly two...
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Image-Melding, from Google Photos
Recently I recommended that you check out Google Photos if you have not done so already. Like Gmail, it’s a way to store huge quantities of digital material and leave its management to someone else. (I...
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An Important Book on Moral Injuries: ‘Afterwar’
One view of the citizen-soldier relationship, from Ruben Bolling’s Tom the Dancing Bug (with permission) In my “Tragedy of the American Military” article early this year and in many updates since then,...
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For the ‘Moral Injuries’ Reading List: God Is Not Here, Consequence,...
Late last night I explained why I thought that Nancy Sherman’s Afterwar was an important non-fiction entry in the still-not-large-enough canon of works explaining our modern chickenhawk-era culture of...
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Google Photos: Did Microsoft Get There First?
Panorama photo created by Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery. For details, read on. In two earlier dispatches, here and here, I suggested that you give Google Photos a try if you hadn’t done so...
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Why a 70-year-old Movie Is Relevant to Today's ‘Moral Injury’ Debate
Following the books, TV shows, and movies mentioned here and here, a few more suggestions.The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel. A reader writes:I've been following your posts and book list, and have a...
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Google and Microsoft: Why Does One Seem Cooler and ‘More Innovative’ Than the...
Young Bill Gates, innovator (Microsoft)In the three previous installments you’ll find lower down in this Thread, I started with ‘Google’s powerful new Photos feature — and then heard from a Microsoft...
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Al Gore, Felix Salmon, ‘Sustainability,’ and Aspiration
A Generation Foundation report on why sustainable businesses should also be more profitable than othersOn the eve of the Paris climate talks, let’s get back to “sustainable capitalism.”After my piece...
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Ajo Update: Emily and Stuart Get Married
Stuart and Emily Siegel, of Ajo, Arizona, at their wedding this month at the Sonoran Desert Conference Center in Ajo. Photo by Margaret Collins, from her flickr collection. Early this year my wife Deb...
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Mapping Climate Change: Ways to Envision What's Happened Already, and What Is...
Map of biological “biomass carbon sink” areas, where carbon is tied up in living plans. It is one of a large collection of climate-related maps in a new Esri release. (Esri)As the climate talks open in...
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Assigning Blame, Versus Sharing Responsibility, for a Nation's Wars
You don’t need me to tell you that Phil Klay’s Redeployment is worth your attention. Last year it won the National Book Award for Fiction. But I do want to highlight an Essay he read last night on the...
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Escape from False Equivalence in Today's NYT
Please be sure to read Binyamin Appelbaum’s assessment of a return to the gold standard, in today’s NYT. (Note: Appelbaum's brother is our own Yoni Appelbaum, TheAtlantic’s politics editor and author...
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