(ed note: There is today a Manos Russian restaurant in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, but the one of which I speak here was just a short walk from the original Sanno Hotel in Akasaka, who’s history can be seen here.)…
Author: vassar
Tribalism Writ Large; the American Tribe
Humanity started out tribal. All of us. This meeting below is between a white man named Cpt Nathan Brittles, about 800 years after his tribal beginnings, and a Cheyenne chief, still in the waning days of his, just after Custer’s…
The Conscience of the Court
Modern Americans believe Roe v Wade (1973) was the worst Supreme Court decision ever rendered. I place it at #2, since Roger B Taney’s majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision in 1857 was far worse in my view. In…