"Donald Trump, in office or on the campaign trail, is not like any other American president."—Jesse Larner

“California produces an interesting type of outsider, because Californians know the inside from the outside." —Jed Perl

“For two centuries from the 1560s Spain’s Manila galleons sailed the long way,from Manila to Acapulco, Mexico, missing the Golden Gate" —David Reid

"To accept the Cybertruck as a truck—despite all its futuristic contradictions—is to sign on for Musk’s personal and idiosyncratic utopia"—Rose McMackin

"Any celebration of California should begin with acknowledgment of its legendary origins out of Oaxaca."—Josef Chytry

"In the emergent West of the 11th and 12th centuries, and especially in Byzantium, its most civilized part, there was nothing but reversals of fortune."—David Reid

"The Postwar begins by confounding 'conventional wisdom.' From the New York intellectuals to the Republican politicos all had something to rue." —David Reid

"Like Nixon, Dick’s views were shaped by the Cold War... Few of his contemporaries managed such razor-sharp satire of the times." — Jeff Hewitt

"Constantinople’s quarrelsome, riotous, and enterprising citizenry prospered behind huge, apparently impregnable walls."

“Thus the present conflict between “Russia” and the “Ukraine” is the latest version of an historic rivalry..." by Josef Chytry

"The fact is, for many of us avoiding the computer simply isn’t an option—it’s too intertwined with every aspect of our lives"

“'The flat has an incredible view over Athens with absolutely no neighbours in sight.'” Athens has a short-term rental problem.

"Berkeley continues to beguile. Berkeley continues to frustrate, cozily transgressive, unrepentantly open-minded..." says philosopher Josef Chytry

"Riotous and dissolute, the millennial Romans lived amid surroundings for which the word “surreal” might have been invented."

David Reid, author of The Brazen Age, with Part 1 of his history according to historians.

Mount Rushmore is more than just a sculpture. What does it mean for tomorrow's America?