Darwin’s feather-ruffling masterpiece. Part of my Pandemic Reading series. Not all great books are great reads. Charles Darwin’s seminal work “On the Origin of Species” is a fine example of this dichotomy. Nevertheless, Darwin’s insights are profound; there is no doubt. Reading his book, it slowly becomes evident how orderly…

A brilliant profile on the three most important Vietnam-era journalists you’ve never heard of. Part of my Pandemic Reading series. Francis Fitzgerald, Catherine Leroy, and Kate Webb are heroes of journalism. Elizabeth Becker’s enthralling book details how these three very different women arrived in Vietnam as uninvited nobodys’ and left…

A moving little book by one of America’s greatest journalists. Part of my Pandemic Reading series. I have been and continue to be an unabashed Sebastian Junger fan. His continual production of high-quality journalism is astounding. Moreover, the clarity of thought in his writing I find to be a welcome…

Part of my Pandemic Reading series Journalist and author, George Packer has produced a potent and timely book in the tradition of the political pamphlet. A tradition often utilized in times of crisis, with examples ranging from “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine, to “Democratic Vistas” by Walt Whitman among many…

Part of my Pandemic Reading Series Growing up in Connecticut I spent a lot of time running around in the woods and in the desolate back yards of many a neighbor’s expansive properties. Old rusted-out farm equipment or the brittle husks of long-dead cars were a common feature in the…

Part of the new Pandemic Reading section of my website If there is such a thing as a fun-to-read economics book, Kate Raworth has written it. The book opens with the story of one ambitious student who cannot help but notice the gap between the abstract theories she was learning…

Part of the new Pandemic Reading section of my website “You know when you are feeling anxious so you google the thing to make you feel better? Well, I googled ‘What are the drinking stats in Lockdown?’ …

In the summer of 2020, in the throes of a global pandemic, Los Angeles- like the rest of the U.S. was consumed with protests in reaction to the extra-judicial murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police. — …there’ll be no peace Having arrived home in Los Angeles, exhausted after a turbulent year working on the streets of Hong Kong; I anticipated a quiet summer spent in the warm embrace of friends and family. What I found was a long-overdue reckoning over the conduct and methods of American policing. The streets…

Covering Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests on Bergger Pancro 400 Pancro 400 may not be very well known to people outside the world of 35mm film shooters, but after seeing a review on it from the (now mulleted) George Muncey of Negative Feedback , I was intrigued. I shot my first…