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Army, Navy, and That Old-Timey Football October 30, 2024
Last spring, nearly four thousand college-football players entered the “transfer portal,” as the online database of athletes signalling their availability is known in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s bylaws. Some of them returned to the...
Religion of Technology October 28, 2024
UFOs—or, UAPs as they have now been pointlessly renamed[2]—are an endless tease. We are offered coy little glimpses but never the pay-off of “full disclosure.” As Carl Jung once said, UFOs are “not photogenic.”[3] Whenever the government discloses in...
The Evolution of Paige Bueckers October 04, 2024
Paige Bueckers glances at the legends gracing the imposing navy-blue walls here in the Connecticut women’s basketball film room. There’s Rebecca Lobo. Maya Moore. Sue Bird. The photos show each of them dominating. Winning. Celebrating. Just outside, ...
The US Navy from Sail to Steam February 07, 2023
Naval history typically evokes battles at sea and other heroic episodes. Lord Nelson’s attack on the French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar in 1805 that ended with his own death amidst triumph is a famous example. Americans might recall John Pa...
The Cold War at Sea June 08, 2022
Ralph DeFalco reviews James D. Hornfischer's book,Who Can Hold the Sea, which is about the U.S. Navy during the Cold War....
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Is an Ode to the 1980s June 06, 2022
Arriving 36 years after the original movie, “Top Gun: Maverick” drops nostalgia bombs with precision. Back are the gongs and synthesizer chords of the first movie’s musical score and the “Danger Zone” jet montage. Tom Cruise, age 59, is back in the l...
