Prologue: If you believe strongly in military intervention—against Russia, or anyone at all—I invite you to intervene. Put down your Starbucks, close your MacBook, step back from your standing-desk, leave your NYU/Yale/Swarthmore degree on the wall, and march down to the recruiting station. It’s on the other side of town, past the yoga studios and art museums, over the railroad…
Posts published by “Harrison Kass”
Harrison was born in New York City and raised in Newtown, Connecticut. He has since lived in ten U.S. states, plus New Zealand. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Journalism and International Relations from NYU, Harrison is an attorney, pilot, guitarist, and pro hockey player. His top five movies are: The Natural, Hook, Top Gun, E.T., and Field of Dreams. He regularly listens to Dokken.
For several weeks, I’ve been tinkering with Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen’s Heaven Tonight solo. Breaking apart each phrase, putting them back together. Playing the thing slow, then at speed. I’m a capable guitarist, comfortable with demanding cuts from players like George Lynch, Eddie Van Halen, and Vito Bratta. But this Yngwie solo is different. It’s a bucking bronco that…
Standing anxiously next to a gas pump on the seedy side of San Diego, Mario’s mother Sandra waited. She had not seen her son Mario in four years—not since he joined the Navy. Mario didn’t want to make a big deal of the reunion, so he told his mother to pick him up at a gas station outside of Naval…
For the first time since 2014, NHL players will be returning to the Olympics. The tournament, which features best-on-best competition, makes the NHL appear watered down. The quadrennial format, in which players compete for their countries, makes the Stanley Cup seem slightly less significant. Nine of the tournament’s 12 teams hail from the European continent. In this article I…