Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Jaywalkers, Chicago, Illinois. John Vachon, 1941.

Can Music Be Perfect? Vol. 21

It's all beyond good, but the timbales, yowch...

Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Baseball is popular at the migratory labor camp at Agua Fria, Arizona. These boys are on one of the teams. Russell Lee, 1940.

Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Scene at Bean Day festival, Wagon Mound, New Mexico. Russell Lee, 1939.

Your FSA/OWI photo of the day

Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Dr. George Washington Carver. Arthur Rothstein, 1942.

A little tango...

... to take your mind off whatever...

Rope-a-dope

... the president's debate strategy, that is, I presume...

Bad week for Marxist historians

The deaths of Eugene Genovese and Eric Hobsbawm within a few days of one another mark the waning of a generation of historians strongly influenced by a version of Marxism that emphasized the role of class struggle as a driving force of world history. The contrast between Genovese's 180-degree twist to social conservatism and Hobsbawm's "unrepentant" communism is also emblematic of the fate of the socialist left since the Cold War. They don't make 'em like that any more... a mixed blessing.