Prefer to listen to this post? My sightseeing companions, today’s journey takes us to a single year in film history. It’s the year The Joy of Sex was published. The year Nixon recorded himself chatting about hiring thieves to break into an office complex. The year an American used the Sicilian Defense to open a […]
Continue ReadingPrefer to listen to this post? Travelers, today we journey to Middle America. No, not the middle America of small towns, wingnut politics, and climate denialism (though that’s a frightful destination we really should visit someday). I refer here to the original middle America which historians refer to as Mesoamerica, the collection of cultures inhabiting […]
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