“…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...
“Cascade holds the distinction of being the first American-produced flavoring hop, utilized to impart a unique flavor profile in the beer”
By the 1970s, the main United States bittering hop was a strain called Cluster,...
“…American liberalism had a lot of the South in it”
After slavery had ended and Reconstruction gave way to the Jim Crow system, the...
“A professor needs to be a professor in a classroom, and a rabbi needs to be a rabbi when officiating at a wedding but neither needs a title on vacation”
A doctor needs to be a doctor around patients but not at a shul...
“…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...
“Discovery of new beer styles by consumers is a microscopic reflection of market trends that are influencing the entire brewing industry”
A stout looks nothing like the Corona or Budweiser from my youth. The flavors...
“How can you build a sustainable city with a strategy that can’t even sustain itself?”
…why do so many public officials keep vowing to do more of ? Special-interest...
“The modern hosiery era began with the democratization of silk stockings, which were once on the verge of seeming a contemptible extravagance”
The modern hosiery era began with the democratization of silk stockings, which were once...
“One of the prime reasons for the wave of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers washing into Europe is the deterioration of the conditions that Syrians face in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, a worsening largely caused by sharp falls in international funding from United Nations countries”
One of the prime reasons for the wave of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers...
“…to prepare students for the change in the way we work, the skills that schools teach may need to change”
Even as technology eliminates some jobs, it generally creates others. Yet to prepare students...