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Tom Wolfe and the Age of Self-Involvement

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Tom There’s writers in there like Pynchon. But if he were a realist. There’s thorough knowledge of American history and the people who wrote it down...

Wires That Bind - Image
history

Out Now Everywhere: My Book ‘Wires That Bind’

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

I am very happy to announce that my book Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920 is now available worldwide...

Johnson, McNamara, Rusk in July 1965
current affairs/history/opinion

Donald Trump Is No Lyndon Johnson

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

John Fund at the National Review recently compared Lyndon Johnson to Donald Trump. Citing also this blog, he argued that there were similarities between the two...

Grundgesetz
current affairs/history

On Patriotism: How to Practice a Constitution

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Playwright Tony Kushner wrote of “beautiful systems dying, old fixed orders spiraling apart” in the 1990s, referencing the changes palpable at the e...

Lives of the Presidents, Cover
history/opinion/Uncategorized

There’s Precedent for All of This Except Everything

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

Donald Trump will put all his business dealings in a blind trust. Except it’s not a blind trust, because it will be run by his kids. Not to worry. It̵...

Tattered U.S. Flag
history/opinion/Uncategorized

One Nation, Divisible

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

There’s no sugarcoating it. This is it. This is the end of a noble dream of progress, dreamt happily and fully still a week ago by those who thought the m...

Normal
current affairs/history/opinion

Note to Self: Do Not Normalize the Trump Presidency

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 0 Comment

You’ve already heard and read much about what the stunning result of Tuesday’s U.S. election means. Opinions are about a-plenty, so I won’t ma...

Donald Trump, caricature by DonkeyHotey
current affairs/history/opinion

History Rhymes: The Trumpian Moment And Its Jacksonian Parallels

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 1 Comment

Mark Twain is credited with all sorts of things he never said or wrote. He did not say “history never repeats itself but it rhymes.” That exact line...

Celebrity Candidate
history/opinion/thoughts

The Donald and His Discontents​

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 1 Comment

”We” live in Trumpy times, indeed. Caricature by DonkeyHotey (CC BY-SA 2.0) A quick note at the top: Donald Trump’s candidacy is obviously happening in th...

history/opinion/reviews/thoughts

The Power Conduit: Robert Caro’s LBJ

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Torsten Kathke / 3 Comments

Robert Caro’s growing multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson is a lesson in how to do biography as history, and one in how power works in the American...

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