Old is the New New

Tom Englehardt posts Chalmers Johnson’s review of Alex Abella’s new history of RAND.

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You heard it here first:* Moby Dick is awesome! (*No, you didn’t.)

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“The Titanic sinking, the Galveston flood, John Henry driving steel … This was the news that I considered, followed and kept tabs on.”

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Caleb Crain in The New Yorker: What will life be like if people stop reading?

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Henry Jenkins asks, “Was Herman Melville a Proto-Fan”?

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Christine Garwood on the history of an infamous idea.

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My whole life has led to acquiring this book.

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John Hodgman, the primal scene of American historiography, The Muppet Movie, and how history judges a dream-thief.

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The great American elevator inspector novel and other memorable reads.

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The cat eater and cannibal who gave the world “Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay!”

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Saucer-Men from Saturn, the WPA Guide to Smallville, everybody loves robots.

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What Batman, beefcake, birth control, and bootleg liquor have in common. Plus: Spicy Man!

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Gilded age memetics, intellectual history as improv jazz, and the secret of the sphinx revealed.

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Kazuo Ishiguro is the Fonz.

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What is history for?

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