“Creating a narrative based on one photograph can be challenging. In this case, my imagination placed me in the heart of the main subject dreaming of his old country, Mother Russia. Or perhaps he imagines talking to his dearly departed mamma, saying, ’Mama, I love You.’” (Photo by Donato DiCamillo)…
Classical economics begins with a central assumption that all people everywhere are rational. However, one of the chief problems with rationality is that it is relative. Rationality assumes that people consciously establish and verify all the facts of a given situation and use logical assumptions to arrive at a conclusion.
“The living conditions may likely seem less desirable for those who have never been to Cuba, but for visitors like me, the beauty lies beneath, in the warmth of its culture and its amazing people.” (photo by Donato DiCamillo)…
In November 2017, I learned that my faculty position at St. Louis Community College would be one of 58 eliminated in a reduction in force. One year later, I sat with Michaella A. Thornton at Hartford Coffee in south St. Louis to…
“One day while preparing for a child’s birthday I had left my girlfriend waiting in the car with the kids for a brief period holding a gift of multi-colored birthday balloons that were meant as a gift. When I made my way back I realized a party had already started.”…
Recently, I came across some essays I had written a few years back. These stories were mostly autobiographical, tales of personal observations and proclamations of personal beliefs. As I read over them, I remembered how quickly my hands had worked to tell these stories, eager to share them with an…
The rattlesnake has qualities Texans idealize: fierceness, independent-mindedness, hardiness, strength, a showiness muted by dust. It is the libertarian of the reptile world. Which is probably why Sweetwater loves to hate Western Diamondbacks. They are very alike but in competition.
One of the great achievements of this book is to show England being taken down a road not of its formidable ruler’s choosing.
If the Civil War did little for deaf Americans’ collective consciousness, Lang points out that it offered men and women the chance to prove themselves as autonomous individuals.
Warner Bros is at its most stimulating when it regards the studio’s movies, stars, and filmmakers as both passive reflections and active agents of a monolithic American cultural identity.