The scene is something like this: one leaden winter morning the Chrobry, a luxury liner that set sail in Poland and has been traveling across the Atlantic Ocean for over twenty days, approaches Bue…
In 1927, twenty-six-year-old American jazz musician Louis Armstrong smoked cannabis for the first time. He was backstage at a Chicago music club when a white musician named Mezz Mezzrow lit a reefe…
When did Joseph Stalin decide to crush, or destroy, or kill Leon Trotsky? Perhaps it was the first time these two men met—in 1907, at the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party’s Fifth Party Congres…
