Approximately thirty-six newspapers were in circulation during the American Revolution; the Gutenberg press was 300 years old. Using the established technology of the era, the Founding Fathers rhetorically expounded the virtues of their thinking in The Federalist Papers via numerous pamphlets and newspaper articles. They rhetorically engaged the American colonists in intelligent discourse; first, towards […]
Penned from the crooked
timber of humanity
Further Acts
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Forty-Three Seconds to Hiroshima
Introduction The uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, is frequently described as the “simple” atomic bomb. Nearly… Read More →
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Operation Crossroads, Part VII
Crossroads Baker, showing the white surface “crack” under the ships, and the top of the hollow spray column. Read More →
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From Little Boy to Peacekeeper
Introduction On July 1, 1946, less than a year after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a B-29 bomber… Read More →
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Power: A Radical View
Power: A Radical View began its surprisingly long life as a very short book (now the first chapter of this one) in 1974… Read More →