Here's Sarah Vowell in a conversation with The Sound of Young America's Jesse Thorn about the history of the annexation of Hawaii. She's explaining how King Kamehameha's son happened to be dismantling Hawaii's old religion, at the same time the first American missionaries were on their way to the islands ( Read more... )

Good things from this week, in chronological order:

1. Watching a British WWII vet describe the moment he saw the cliffs of Dover after being evacuating from Dunkirk in the little ships. He said after the chaos and death across the channel, it was so peaceful, and they wept, and he kissed the ground. His old voice as he told the story was a rough, ( Read more... )