by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Kaine Ezell, on September 21, 2017 With the upcoming premier of Star Trek: Discovery (CBS) on September 24, we thought it might be fun to look back at Mark Twain’s first appearance in the Star Trek universe. Since the original Star Trek aired in...
by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on June 26, 2019 Although it’s been almost a century since Mark Twain’s death, his staying power as an American icon endures. There are many reasons for his iconic status: his stories (especially those that keep getting banned),...
by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on December 17, 2021 During a presentation I gave at the recent CMTS symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of Roughing It, I made an offhand comment linking Mark Twain with The Big Lebowski. The link is a solid one. Joel Coen,...
by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on February 21, 2017 “Fake news” isn’t really anything new. Robert Darnton points out in a recent essay in the New York Review of Books that “the concoction of alternative facts is hardly rare, and the equivalent of today’s...
by admin | Apr 26, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on September 26, 2017 As a follow-up to a post I wrote earlier this year on Mark Twain’s friendship with Frederick Douglass (who is from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where I live), I wanted to share the following excerpt from Chris...