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Cabin Fever: Bits & Pieces 2026

Mainstream/legacy media’s abject surrender to the oligarchy, the sane-washing of Trumpism, the craven kowtowing and risk-aversion, make it clear there’s no hill they’ll die on. They’ll simply expire. […]

Guest Post 38: Blaise Tobia on CETA

During the Covid pandemic many people were calling for a “New WPA” to help alleviate the cultural crisis while, in fact, CETA was a more viable model. It had received bipartisan support in 1973, and was actually signed into law by Richard Nixon! […]

Straight Outta Stone Ridge: Fall Sere

While keeping a sharp eye on the political situation, we have taken some steps toward improving our personal infrastructure, so as to make us as self-sufficient as possible. […]

Beuford Smith (1936-2025): A Farewell

It seems paradoxical to say that gentleness and joy are contained in Beuford Smith’s work, even at its fiercest, but the truth of that is perhaps his greatest accomplishment and the firmest possible foundation for the major body of work he has just begun — and, indeed, can at this stage hardly avoid — creating. […]

Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (55)

Charles Herrick, who has provided most of the military-related analysis published here as part of the Capa D-Day project, has distilled that material into a new book, Back into Focus: The Real Story of Robert Capa’s D-Day. […]