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But while you’re here, why not browse some of my most recent journal entries:
Book review: “Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois” by Robert D. Sampson
In the handful of years after the Civil War, Illinoisans went crazy for baseball, a game that was then spelled as two words “base ball.” [...]
Book review: “Democracy’s Rebirth: The View from Chicago” by Dick Simpson
Dick Simpson is one of those rare political scientists who has also been a politician. He knows how the sausage is made, even if there[...]
Book review: “Paradise” by Donald Barthelme
Maybe it was funnier and more interesting back in 1986 — Paradise, I mean, the thin, wispy novel by Donald Barthelme. Or maybe Barthelme just[...]