When I woke up Wednesday morning, the headline on the doom-and-gloom-maga-aligned-Murdoch outlet The Daily Mail was that Val Kilmer had...

Lore, myth, and historical fact Popular culture reflects a sense of societal identity. Images, storylines, and characters combine to...

Staying dry on the island of conclusions The person in power determines reality. Another version of this is that history is written by...

This came through on my social media feed this week The National Archives in the U.K. has started a partially crowd-sourced project...

The root of wilfulness Wills are complicated. A will is just a document. It is also an essential part of being human. We speak of the...

Skip Damsel unless you're a stepmother. The latest post on my Substack is about the Netflix movie Damsel starring Millie Bobby Brown....