Introduction: The Day the Music Died On March 31, 1995, a palpable wave of shock and disbelief rippled out from...

Introduction: The Ghost in the Akron Gym It begins, as all such stories do, with an idol. In the gyms...

Introduction: The Question in My Kitchen The scene is a familiar one, played out in countless homes on any given...

As a narrative theorist, I’ve spent a career deconstructing stories, finding the elegant machinery of cause and effect that makes...

Introduction: More Than One Answer The query "who sang 'Tell Me Why'" appears simple, yet it unlocks a rich and...

Executive Summary The animosity of Lewis L. Strauss toward J. Robert Oppenheimer, a conflict that culminated in the ruin of...

As a writer who has spent over a decade chronicling the arcs of public lives, I’ve learned that the standard...

Introduction: The Static of the Status Quo I remember the precise moment the foundation of my professional world cracked. It...

The Failure of a Flat Answer - A Personal Introduction In my early days as a music blogger, back when...

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a seminal trauma in the American psyche. It...