If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I’m at Hartford’s historic Old State House for their very first Table Talk program at noon today. We’ll talk about housing, poverty, the Presidential election, and anything else you’d like to bring up.  I hope you’ll come. This is a new program at the Old State House and it would be cool to kick it off …

Dancing plastic army men!

Yesterday, I was part of a panel that discussed the War of 1812, which figured heavily in Connecticut’s history, and in my closing statements — which I didn’t prepare and which just kind of fell out my mouth — I said that maybe as a culture we don’t actually like war, that we’re always fighting …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…(and you’re in Hartford on Tuesday), I’m part of a panel at the Old State House at noon, “America’s Most Unpopular War: Dissension, Debate and the War of 1812.” As it turns out, the War of 1812 was not popular here in Connecticut. I’ll be discussing dissent in more recent times. You can register by …