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We humans need to bring order to chaos. We need to make sense of the universe we perceive. The challenge to do so is a never ending one as the universe changes. It has grown bigger in space, longer in time, more different in peoples, and more complicated in technology. Those who can connect the […]
If a tree falls in the woods and it’s not on YouTube, has anything happened? Shouldn’t everyone have to reinvent the wheel? These questions raise the issue of how should the history community disseminate information on good practices? How should we share the news of what people have done? I am not referring to a […]
“[M]ocking Kim Jong-un’s weight and height in a tweet was like a snippet of peevish dialogue from a middle-school cafeteria.” (Frank Bruni, NYT, January 21, 2018) “If you examine him through the lens of playground politics, you will recognize Mr. Trump as thin-skinned bully…” (Annie Pfeifer, NYT, January 21, 2018) By now, huge numbers of […]
The new legislative season is upon us. That means it is time to start lobbying. What are the history community “asks”? What is it the history community would like to see happen? For the museums the answer is clear. There is a Museum Education Act. Erika Sanger, Executive Director of the Museum Association of New […]
The South shall rise again. What can dysfunctional New York learn from the South on Civil Rights tourism? By coincidence just prior to the awarding of the grants for 2017, a problem with the Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) funding process was exposed in an article in the Travel Section of the Sunday New York […]
In a recent post about the absence of any institutional or organizational leadership in the New York State history community, I used the image of the Yorkers without any explanation of what a Yorker was. Two readers submitted comments about the Yorkers to an even earlier post on the subject of the NYSHA even before […]
The June 2016 issue of The Atlantic contains two articles relevant to the present discussion about the lack of cognitive abilities of the current President of the United States. The two articles are: “How Kids Really Succeed,” by Paul Tough “The Mind of Donald Trump,” by Dan P. McAdams. The two articles in the same […]
My end of the year reflection on the current presidential experience now turns to the two distinctive characters who have become part of American historical lore: the Predator in chief and Our Lady of Perpetual Victimhood. These two people created a presidential election experience that truly is one for the ages. Let’s start with a […]
Impeachment is the elitist Democrat Holy Grail. Through the forcible removal from political office of the one who never should have become president in the first place, cosmic order will be restored and all will be right with the world. Once the traumatic shock of the election night was over, the therapy for the post […]
Is there a difference between false prophets who know they are false prophets and false prophets who wrongly believe their own prophecies? Just because a person is wrong doesn’t mean they intended to deceive you. How many predictions that the world is coming to an end have proven true so far? With these thoughts in […]
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
by Peter Feinman
