Following his posts on our geography and sporting pastimes, David Cohen continues his (very) occasional series giving a US perspective of the British with a succinct summary of our history... The history of England is the history of colonialism, mostly with the English on the sharp side of the spear. Being ... Read More...
Following his look at our geography, David Cohen continues his series giving a US perspective of the English by tackling our sporting pastimes... The English have two great sports, not-baseball and not-football. They also play golf, but that’s an artifact of Scottish colonial rule we’ll visit later in discussing English ... Read More...
Inspired by Rita's 'letter from America' column, but not willing to come and live in England, David Cohen provides a US perspective of the English - a sort of 'Dispatches (not quite) from the Former Old World' - beginning with a look at our geography... For a while this winter, my ... Read More...