War

The travel time between New York City and Washington, DC is long, and I soon realized that swapping my drive for a train ride allowed me to spend a couple of hours collecting my thoughts and organizing my research into a story. Of course, a lot of this time was actually spent scrolling on my phone. There is a meme that turns up on my social media feeds a fair number of times. It’s a cartoon with two people. The first person is trying to publish a book on an esoteric, seemingly small piece of history (think South Asian civil