Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
A big Saturday night in Florida Soccer
Why do all the matches have to kickoff in the same window or be played the same night? We discuss that and preview the USL Super League Florida Derby while discussing the season ahead for the Rowdies, Miami FC and FC Naples. Spotify podcast link Note to paid BT 90 subscribers: You can set up […]
Governor David Scholz Pan Am trip in 1934
A gem I found in the University of Miami’s online library collection
New Book – The Florida Campaign 1774-1783 to be published by Casemate Publishing
Robert Buccellato and I have a new book project that is being published later this year by Casemate Publishing.
From the archives: How the Jan 6 insurrection was cooked in Florida
This has been a sad week in American history – though I begin this commentary with an ode to my colleague Brook Hines who coined the cleverly brilliant term “Parler Putsch” to describe this week’s effort at a insurgency by right-wing groups to overturn the results of November’s US Presidential Election. Parler is a right-wing […]
Chiles becomes unpopular but is reelected nonetheless
An unpopular Lawton Chiles was reelected in 1994- as of 2025 the last Democrat to be elected Governor in Florida. We discussed that period on a recent Florida History Podcast. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have App Store […]
The Democrats are dead nationally
The Democrats today resemble the GOP of the 1930s. Completely incoherent in their messaging and losing serious ground not just electorally, but in terms of voter registration even in the bluest of areas nationally. The ineptitude with which the Republicans faced the New Deal era Democrats is repeating itself today with the Dem Party’s failings […]
The Florida Squeeze 