Still Labor Day in US -- actually it's still Labor Day in London. So time to read this little reminder of what it is really all about: frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/labor-day-...
Through the miracle of the internet and the New York Times’ willingness to put its archives online, every Labor Day I re-read this article, published exactly 44 years ago today:
Surprised my old colleague Cokie didn't remember a woman, Margaret Mitchell, wrote the bible of the Lost Cause: Gone With the Wind. She died when Cokie was 6 yrs old, so I'm not sure when this forgetting started.
Labor Day FRDH podcast special. Forget war and politics and the usual stuff and let's visit Paris vicariously
End of summer podcast, in case you didn't get to Paris ... and even if you did! soundcloud.com/michael-gold...
Time for Colin Kaepernick to have a consciousness raising session with the Crimson Tide football team. Maybe a little boycott until this decision is reversed ... perhaps a visit to Auburn as well.
I came back to Bluesky cause I heard it was hoppin' but I'm getting less action than I did as an overweight, 4-eyed, pimply 10th grader on any Saturday night in 1965. Well maybe this pic I took will engage u: Hussein shrine, Karbala Iraq in 2004 when I was the only Jew for 1000 kms in any direction
Elon's worried he's going to be arrested. He should think of it as being taken into protective custody. A lot of people would like to see him get a more serious come-uppance
The new FRDH podcast is one of the most important episodes I've ever put out. soundcloud.com/michael-gold...
The fact that the Gaza War caused by the pogrom of October 7th is still going on underlines the absence of truth in the search for peace. Telling the truth about what peace will really mean and the co
Over at the FRDH substack newsletter is a piece to mark the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris from the Nazis. frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/80-years-a...
COULD YOU BE A HERO, JUST FOR ONE DAY?