by William Shaw | Aug 18, 2020 | Features, History, Politics, Trump |
On March 2, 1805, a little more than a year after he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Vice-President Aaron Burr departed the capitol extolling the U.S. Senate in elegiac terms. He called it “a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; and it is here –...
by William Shaw | Aug 4, 2020 | Features, Politics |
The dumpster fire was lit early when White House strategists ballyhooed Trump’s plan to “deconstruct the administrative state.” The plan propagated the dissolution of the tax system, business and environmental regulations, trade pacts, and immigration policies that...
by William Shaw | Jul 21, 2020 | Features, Politics |
Stone generals of any war are not only shrines, they are politicians who silently speak to the values of a people at a historical moment. But those moments are transient, like the politicians themselves. Times change; values change. Politicians and statues are removed...
by William Shaw | Jun 23, 2020 | Features, Politics |
“South Pacific” opened in 1949 and became one of Broadway’s longest running hits. It features Nellie Forbush, a Navy nurse from rural Arkansas stationed on a South Pacific island who falls in love with a sophisticated French planter, Emile De Becque. She rejects his...
