by Nick Kolakowski | Jan 8, 2022 | Pop Culture
The story of Napoleon in Egypt remains noteworthy for several reasons. First, it is a key examine of how, even if its tactical system is superb enough to decisively win battles, an army can still lose a campaign if its grand strategy is fatally flawed. If you want...
by Nick Kolakowski | Jan 6, 2022 | Pop Culture
The animals could feel it coming. The early hours of April 18, 1906 reportedly filled with the frightened barking of dogs and horses’ panicked neighs. But people have duller senses, and San Francisco, with its half-million residents, slept on until the huge earthquake...
by Nick Kolakowski | Jan 5, 2022 | Pop Culture
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of serial killer literature. In the 1990s, such novels dominated the bestseller lists; you couldn’t walk into a bookstore without spying titles by Dean Koontz, Thomas Harris, Patricia Cornwell, and their contemporaries on the front...
by Nick Kolakowski | Jan 4, 2022 | Pop Culture
Cities are super-organisms; and like any living thing, they grow under the right circumstances, at the right time —or they don’t grow at all. Many cities spring up at the nexus of trade routes, or spots that offer the locals some defensive or economic advantage. For...
by Nick Kolakowski | Jan 3, 2022 | Pop Culture
With the new year upon us, there’s no better time to explore how one of our most famous presidents might have drifted into the orbit of one of our most famous (mythical?) beasts. Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), who emerged on the American landscape as a symbol of...
