Was the Real Charles Dickens Actually The Man in "The Man Who Invented Christmas?"

The Real Charles Dickens Really Did Need to Write a Hit, But the True Story Is a Lot More About the Brand Management of the World's First Mass Media…

Dec 9 • Stephen Himes

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A Christmas Carol, Stave I: Marley's Ghost

Ebenezer Made a Small Fortune with His Family-Less Loan Shark Business Partner, But Now Marley's Dead and Scrooge Must Endure Purgatory

Dec 3 • Stephen Himes

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June 2025

How Literature “Lives”: Each Reader Gives It New Life in Their Own Time and Place

If It Wasn’t the Most Important Subject In School, They Wouldn’t Be Willing To Kill Over It

Jun 6 • Stephen Himes

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December 2024

The Politics of Scrooge: Charles Dickens and Karl Marx Saw the Same Industrial Revolution, But Came to Very Different Conclusions

Dickens created A Christmas Carol. Marx created Das Kapital. Their only point of agreement: Healthcare shouldn’t be tied to your employer.

Dec 13, 2024 • Stephen Himes

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November 2024

Why They Were Out in the Streets of “Electric Avenue”: The Brixton Riots and the Ongoing Persecution of the Windrush Generation

Trump Might Have Won the Election, But Eddy Grant Remains Undefeated

Nov 22, 2024 • Stephen Himes

“The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books”, Part 1

How Standardized Test-Driven Curriculum Degraded America's Capacity to Tackle Our Most Pressing Issues

Nov 20, 2024 • Stephen Himes

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