Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. On this holiday Monday: First, if you missed yesterday’s post, here are 15 varied songs marking the day. Next: My “Memorial Day Massacre,” which came out over PBS one year ago,...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Fairly eclectic group, but here goes: John Prine unveils “Sam Stone” in very early TV appearance. A little-known early Joni Mitchell song, “The Fiddle and the Drum,” performed by...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Was great to see CNN’s Dana Bash trending on Twitter yesterday. Uh, what? Well, it transpired because thousands were bashing her (ahem) after she compared threats to Jews in the...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Just back from New Orleans last night. After many trips from about 2001-2009, this was our first visit to a beloved city in quite awhile. I had posted last week about the trip but...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Going back to last July, I have covered reactions to the Christopher Nolan movie in Japan – sight unseen, since it did not find a distributor there. Then a late-March...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. When Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was released last July, many predicted it would spark profound and long-lasting new activism, and official measures, with the aim...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s substack Between Rock and a Hard Place. You may have read or heard about yesterday (if you were lucky, as the major media buried the story most of the day) that a senior U.S. airman named Aaron Bushnell, on active duty...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. You may be surprised – perhaps appalled or disgusted – that the object pictured above was sold at auction this week like any rare comic book, baseball card or painting...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s Substack Between Rock and a Hard Place. This week we celebrate the 60th birthday of “Dr. Strangelove,” which debuted on January 29, 1964. The first preview screening had been set for Nov. 22, 1963, but.... well, you...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. The Atomic Bowl, January 1, 1946 The famed biologist Jacob Bronowski revealed in 1964 that his classic study Science and Human Values was born at the moment he arrived...
