The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H. L. Mencken
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An Archaeological Mystery
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January
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- Trajan's Column
- Conservatism and Nostalgia
- Octopus Saves the Day
- To the Tyrants of the World
- Applebaum on Egypt
- Mixed Race America
- Celts to Vikings 2b; Augustine's Mother
- Meanwhile, in Tunisia
- Great Coffee Table Books
- Off to the Tea Party
- Egypt
- Zeta Ophiuci
- Young Japanese Fleeing the System
- The Past from Above
- Kirishima
- Working Less, Feeling Worse
- The Hallaton Guardian
- The Forest in Winter
- Freedom of the Press
- Snow
- Celts to Vikings 2a; Roman Busts
- Celts to Vikings 2; the Romans
- Academically Adrift
- Cassiopeia A
- Celts to Vikings 1
- Mysterious Dacian Gold
- Last Minute Preservation Rarely Works
- The Library Hawk
- Launch
- The New Museum on the Mall
- Marc Loret
- Gustave Doré's Paradise Lost
- Practical Politics
- David Smith, "Lunar Arcs on One Leg"
- Tetris and Soviet History
- Season of Sorrow
- Thomas is 14
- Ulysses
- Aurora Borealis
- What Can be Done with Lidar
- What Historians Do
- London as a Historic Battlefield
- Storm on Saturn
- Why Not?
- David Frum on the Politics of Health Care
- Course Evaluations
- Colonial Drawings of Mexican Archaeological Sites
- The Milky Way
- The Giant Tennesse Crayfish
- Mt. Etna
- David Brooks, Amy Chua, and Teamwork
- Caligula's Tomb?
- Freezing Rain
- Nietzsche and the Violent Young Men
- Restoring a Map of New York
- Bog Bodies
- Cloning Mammoths
- Hasegawa Togaku
- Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
- Imagining China
- No Retirement
- Eodromaeus
- The Cubicle
- Pretty Music
- Drunken Celts and the Archaeology of Iron Age Beer
- Tarantula Nebula
- Revolution in Tunisia
- More on Amy Chua and "Extreme Parenting"
- Ai Weiwei in the Rubble
- War on Meth Not Achieving Much
- The Lament for Cynddylan
- The Warren Cup
- EPA Blocks New Mountaintop Coal Mine
- How to Act Presidential
- Blackbeard's Sword?
- History and Memory
- Homelessness and Head Injury
- Like I Said about that Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- A Christmas Vigil in Cairo
- To Uranus?
- Electricity from Rice Husks
- Tlaltecuhtli
- Chinese Parenting
- The Real Problem with Right Wing Rhetoric
- The Towers of Ras Al-Khaima
- The Smallest Exoplanet Yet
- The Trouble with Law School
- The Weirdest Idea
- My Thoughts on the Arizona Shooting
- Signs That the Recession is Over
- Austin: a City with Character
- So Long, Austin
- Thoughts on Listening to People Talk
- A Day in Austin, Part 3: Music
- Satan and Roofless on Trial
- Cuts at the Pentagon
- A Day in Austin, Part 2: Art
- A Day in Austin
- In Austin
- Cresap's Fort
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About Me
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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