Category: places

• March 11, 2023

  Do democratic principles demand a “Greater Idaho?”

  

  Idaho is OK, you say. But it could be better. How? What if we threw in Eastern Oregon with it? That is precisely the “Greater Idaho” campaign’s aim. And it is doing well, if you consider that most of these state-rejiggering plans go nowhere, and it appears to be going — somewhere. The idea is…
• February 3, 2023

  Tyre Nichols, Memphis, and elites who run away

  

  Come with me as we explore the violent, death-strewn and musically brilliant history of a city on a hill.
• February 24, 2022

  A weekend jaunt goes right

  

  Some of the kids were with other family over President’s Day weekend, and my wife and I decided to try to make a break for it on short notice, with our four-year-old in tow. But where to go? Most places we checked were booked, or at least everything but the kind of corporate hotel you…