Fate, or Divine Providence, has spent three or so decades teaching me better.

So I am indeed humbled as well as honored to have been given the privilege of addressing the Darien Historical Society, up in Connecticut, on Titanic, come Sunday 28 October. Given that it's a story - at least in our telling: When That Great Ship Went Down: The Legal and Political Repercussions of the Loss of RMS Titanic - of the legal and political skulduggery, crony capitalism, Progressive racism, regulatory capture, insider trading, and the sacrifice of all principle in pursuit of an over-arching political project, the timing does seem mighty apt.