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Keith Preston

Episode Three: The Trial

Murderville The Intercept Charles Raby is tried for the murder of Edna Franklin. No physical evidence ties him to the crime. But the jury sentences him to death. Charles Raby is tried for the murder of Edna Franklin. The murder weapon is missing, and no physical evidence ties him […]

The End of the Terror

By David A. Bell New York Review of Books Colin Jones gives an hour-by-hour account of the Ninth of Thermidor, a day that marked a turning point in the French Revolution. Imagine a government divided between two ferociously opposed political forces, both of which claim the right to […]

Another All-Time Media Faceplant

By Matt Taibbi After the Biden administration and the press wrongly predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 16th, they kept compounding the error in spectacular fashion. If cluelessness can be art, American journalists unveiled their Sistine Chapel this week, in a remarkable collection of misreports and […]