History Matters More: Ebert Gets It Right

Beginnings

This blog will discuss issues that are historical, timeless, and current. Inevitably, all will be discussed with history explicitly present or, probably more often, hidden behind the opinions expressed in the blog. The issues I will address include: Humanism, Politics, Culture, History, Early American History, Biography (and its limitations), Early American Cultural History, the History of Journalism, U. S. Constitutional History, Academe (and its discontents), Liberal Education, and even manners. My friends will too readily assume that a curmudgeonly perspective will usually be taken, but they will be wrong. At the most profound level, I like to think that matters addressed here will have more optimism behind them than may first appear. No matter what topics I may raise her, the intent is to reflect on matters mainly public, to suggest some ways of looking at things as well as conclusions, and to prod others with ideas and opinions that may occasionally border on the outrageous.