History’s hot takes·Oct 22Vlad the Impaler Was Destroyed by the Printing PressHis enemies wrote the account. A king with a financial scandal paid to spread it. Gutenberg’s machine made it permanent.
InThe Prairie Dispatch in The Land of LincolnbyA.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)·Sep 9Before Algorithms, There Were Voices: Larry Lujack, Tommy Edwards, and the Sound of ChicagoHow two Chicago broadcasters became part of the Midwest’s shared memory.
noah johnson·Aug 23the month children’s television died:-How an invisible regulatory shift in September 2002 triggered a sudden broadcast extinction event — and why kids born in the mid-90s saw it…
J Thomas Smith·Aug 21What Must Radio Never Lose?On National Radio Day, a century of broadcasting — from Black radio ownership and localism to consolidation, streaming and AI — reveals…
SparK-NITT·Jun 28The Blueprint Was Always the PointProject 2025 and the architecture of institutional bypass
