“California has a historic role in the development of homebrewing in America”
The vast majority of brewers in California, and the nation for that matter, began...
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“…the trend of beer becoming bigger, blander, and nationwide would not continue unabated”
Nationwide, the downward trend in number of operated breweries reached the lowest point in...
“The 1803 Louisiana Purchase…set off the dynamic that led to the Civil War”
The 1803 Louisiana Purchase—by which the U.S. acquired more slaveholding territory in the name...
“The three celebrity outsiders continued to wrap the thinnest evidence of their ability to do the job in the gaudiest self-assurance”
The three celebrity outsiders continued to wrap the thinnest evidence of their ability to...
“…it’s unsettling to encounter a prospective leader whose persona is so conspicuous and well defined and yet whose core is so obtuse”
Trump might be the single most self-involved yet least introspective person I have ever...
“…American liberalism had a lot of the South in it”
After slavery had ended and Reconstruction gave way to the Jim Crow system, the...
“…the development of beer styles in America came to a uniform apex in the decades following Prohibition’s repeal. American beer was, in all practical senses, lager-styled”
Much like the developments in technology for storage and transportation, the development of beer...
“The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous dilemma for a lot of other people”
The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous...
“…the core of Trump’s phenomenon is his celebrity itself, which, in today’s America, is in fact as populist as it gets”
…while populism is often associated with grass-roots movements, Trump’s brand of it flows not...
“Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the country, you might still, if you look hard enough, detect tendrils of Southern influence that extend past the Mason-Dixon Line”
Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the...