If you don’t expect too much from me, you might not be let down — When Pierce McIntyre tagged me in the “Each Letter of Your First Name Is a Song” writing prompt, my first thought was: “wow, it took him long enough to finally tag me in one of these.” Just kidding, buddy; keep them coming. My second thought was that I would have…

The superb HBO miniseries has a few glaring errors — There is little debate that the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers is one of the best World War II dramas ever produced. The collaboration of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg three years after they teamed up for Saving Private Ryan set the bar for historical television programs, a bar…

It’s that time of year again — Today marks the start of Advent, the season during which we prepare for the birth of Christ. I know that when most people hear the word “Advent” today, they immediately think of the plethora of ridiculous so-called Advent calendars on offer, several of which I mercilessly mocked here. …

It seems like yesterday — Exactly 23 days ago, I wrote a story lamenting the fact that it had been 23 days since I last wrote an article about the One and Only Bruce Springsteen. It has once again, inexplicably, been 23 days, a fact almost troubling enough to make me finally schedule that 50th…

Part One of the Forty Martyrs series — Many of you will be at least somewhat familiar with Sir Thomas More, if only from his classic work Utopia. Readers in the U.K. will, I imagine, be considerably more familiar with him than those in the U.S., given his role in British history. …

Misdirection is your friend — Since the 2016 elections, Thanksgiving dinner has become a contact sport for many American families; the problem has only been exacerbated by the results of the 2020 elections, and it is likely that the elections of 2024 will result in Thanksgiving being cancelled entirely. For those of you still speaking…

Debunking myths on the anniversary of his assassination — Today is the 59th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. It was one of the most traumatic and pivotal moments in American history, and undoubtedly altered the course of world events in ways we cannot begin to fathom. The assassination…

Because I am a slave to writing prompts — It’s Monday, which by its very definition means today sucks already. I was struggling with an important piece on a major historical event when I saw that Pierce McIntyre had thrown down yet another writing prompt. Normally I admire that kind of relentless tenacity, but because it’s Monday I was…

It’s that time again — As hard as it may be to believe, Advent starts this coming Sunday; I have no clue where the year went, but here we are again. I know that some of you are unsurprised because you put your Christmas decorations up in the middle of July, to which I strongly…