Archives: September 2010

As an architectural historian and Atlantic City native, I have been anxiously awaiting the premiere of Boardwalk Empire, which aired last night on HBO. Steve Buscemi is great as Nucky Thompson, but for me, the real star of the show is Atlantic City herself, “the World’s Playground” wonderfully recreated in all her 1920s glory. While [...]

In a July 2010 commentary titled “No ‘Megamosque’ Near Ground Zero,” Newt Gingrich declared: “‘Cordoba House’ is a deliberately insulting term. It refers to Cordoba, Spain – the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over the Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world’s third-largest mosque complex.”* Gingrich’s statement is both [...]