Dennis Hogan

Jan 19, 2025 | thedigradio.com | Dennis Hogan |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

By Dennis M. HoganThe Dig’s series of episodes on Central America takes us through the deeper history of a region whose past is by turns tragic and strange, filled with stories of struggle, heroism, imperial terror, political cruelty, and popular resistance.

Jan 3, 2025 | nytimes.com | Dennis Hogan

Pero Trump no comprende la verdadera amenaza para el comercio estadounidense a través de Panamá. Si el objetivo es garantizar un acceso asequible al punto de tránsito a largo plazo, es el cambio climático, y no la influencia china, lo que debería preocupar a los legisladores estadounidenses. He aquí por qué. Enviar un solo barco a través de las esclusas del canal puede consumir unos 50 millones de galones de agua, principalmente agua dulce recogida del lago Gatún.

Jan 1, 2025 | nytimes.com | Dennis Hogan

Here's why. Sending a single ship through the canal's locks can use around 50 million gallons of water, mainly freshwater collected from Lake Gatún. Though the canal is, for the moment, operating at full capacity, a drier climate and greater demand for drinking water have in recent years reduced the volume of available water. That has forced the state-run Panama Canal Authority at times to limit the number of daily passages through the canal, at one point by as much as 40 percent.

Nov 14, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Dennis Hogan

Between 1904 and 1914, the US completed the unprecedented project of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Panama Canal. Print celebrations of the achievement began to appear almost instantly, some even before the canal was finished. They have not stopped since. The typical Panama Canal book is a panegyric, and many writers have focused on the men who planned, executed, and helmed the project as paragons of power, vision, technical know-how, and ingenuity.

Aug 29, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Dennis Hogan |Zoe Hu

The Lenape had called Staten Island Aquehonga Manacknong, “the place of the bad woods,” but in 1609 Henry Hudson rechristened it in honor of the Dutch parliament, the Staaten-Generaal. Later, the British renamed it Richmond, for the duke of the same name, a bastard son of Charles II. For decades, Staten Island was officially if not popularly known as Richmond Borough, until, in 1975, the name changed again.