Sitemap - 2021 - Sean Munger's History and Culture Dispatches

Pretending to care: why "net zero" is delusional nonsense.

The future of climate: do you have any idea what's really coming?

Lost a hammer, found a treasure: the incredible story of the Hoxne Hoard.

Spin doctors of death: playing up COP26 as some sort of success.

The Kellogg-Briand Pact and the future of international climate agreements.

The day the real JFK Jr. met a conspiracy theorist.

Why COP26 will fail, spectacularly.

Why I wrote "In Deadly Mirrors."

An alternative nightmare: What if Hillary had won?

Cheap Trump crap: the performative grift of modern conservatism.

Should fossil fuel companies have "a seat at the table" in crafting solutions to global warming?

Why Democrats will not save democracy.

A brief hiatus...and some interesting historical stuff.

The guy who beat Press Your Luck: The incredible winning streak of Michael Larson.

Landscape of the epic past: a history of Spain in the movies.

Voting for the Dark Side: the politics of "Star Wars."

The road we didn't take: Twenty years on from 9/11.

Fire on the beach: Asbury Park, NJ and the S.S. Morro Castle disaster.

Nothing doing: Why an American fascist government won't be in power for long.

The cheese of childhood: The gestalt of the Saturday afternoon movie.

Clontarf: the epic battle that remade Ireland.

You've already chosen a radical response to the climate crisis. You just don't know it yet.

The little white car: Diana, Paris, and the tiny hinges of history.

The pain of losing: A tale of two candidates.

Historic Photo: four Roman emperors and a power metal fan.

Scandals, burnt letters and bad crab meat: the death of President Harding.

A landmark 632 years in the making: the odyssey of Cologne Cathedral.

The U.S. is a historical empire in advanced decline: why is it so hard to admit this?

Afghanistan: another history that we failed to learn from.

The little spaceship that could: the odyssey of Pioneer 10.

The Chronicle of Ireland: the lost mother lode of medieval Irish history.

America's long Vietnam: The diminishing utility of war.

Stockfish Empire: The Hanseatic League in Bergen. [Part II]

Stockfish Empire: The Hanseatic League in Bergen. [Part I]

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