Jimmy Maher is trying to do history. They liking to believe the quality of the content on their site speaks for itself. They’re neither an archivist nor a collector, although they depend on both. They’re rather trying to place all that detail into a cultural context, and look at how the rise of Microprose Software, with their gung-ho military simulations and their flamboyant ex-fighter jock as President, coincided with the arrival of Tom Clancy on the bestseller racks and Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America.” They fancy they have a gift for explaining these things in everyday, understandable language. They fancy also that they have a modest gift, which they’ve further developed through many years of effort, for writing in general. They hate academese as much as their readers do. They like to believe the quality of the content on their site speaks for itself. They’ve occasionally been told by readers that they made a subject they didn’t find intrinsically interesting fun enough that they ended up enjoying the article anyway. They’d like to think the subjects of which they write
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