It might seem a bit bold to include “intelligent popular culture” in the url of this website. But let me emphasize that it is aspirational. I have no, or little, idea of whether the material on this website is/will be either intelligent or popular. But that's the aspiration and not only for this website. In forty-plus years of reading, writing, and talking about American history and politics, I have come to despair of the idiocy of much of popular culture, its lack of intelligence, its divorce from anything that really matters. So while I taught American history (yes, I'm a professor but don't hold that against me) with an emphasis on politics, including political philosophy, I also taught courses on movies, baseball, and other popular culture topics, always with an eye to bring out their larger significance for American values, attitudes, and actions.
I'm retired now. Toward the end of my years of teaching, I began to think about a final book project. I had long promised myself that I would write my baseball book when I reached my “dotage.” Having arrived there, I unfortunately found myself struggling with a serious disease. So I do not know that I'll ever write that final book, imagined as “Baseball's World Series, 1947-1963,” but I hope to at least get some of its rudiments and ideas onto this website, along with a bunch of other (I think, creative) stuff I've generated over the years. Your mileage, of course, may vary.