Hitchcock Made San Juan Famous 50 Years Ago With ‘Vertigo’
Fifty years ago this Tuesday, the world's most famous movie
The road trip and the four-legged child
When I was a kid, our family took a road trip every summer from our home in Colorado to visit my grandparents in Phoenix.
Pax Americana built by U.S. Armed Forces
The historian Thomas F. Madden described the United States as “an empire of trust,” a phrase he fashioned to compare modern America with the golden era of the ancient Roman Republic. According to Madden, both the American and the Roman republics grew into sovereign powerhouses because external threats stimulated the drive to expand their boundaries of geopolitical influence by means of superior military might, used to transform enemies into allies.
