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One Last Thought on Columbus

We are the heirs of marauders, pirates, conquerors, colonizers, colonialists, and imperialists. And such knowledge is why so many have guilty consciences and seek to salve them by repudiating Columbus....

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A Flawed “Selma”

The movie ‘Selma’ has a glaring flaw Joseph A. Califano, Jr. The Washington Post December 26, 2014 I read this story with great disappointment. Leave aside that Hollywood felt it necessary to take...

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On Selma

The true importance of the celebrations in Selma is that they demonstrate something we forget when we live in the news cycle: that the broad trajectory of this nation in the last 50 years has been...

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The Roosevelts who despised each other: The untold story of Eleanor Roosevelt...

The Roosevelts who despised each other: The untold story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth – Salon.com. Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt...

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How Bill Broke a Promise to Russia

The first Bush administration promised Gorbachev that Nato would not move ‘one inch to the east’, in the words of the then secretary of state, James Baker. But Bill Clinton ignored the Russians’ wish...

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It is Time for some New Deal Revisionism

Revisionist historians and economists keep trying to stomp on FDR’s legacy. But declaring that WPA workers were unemployed is just silly. Source: The right-wing New Deal conniption fit – Salon.com It...

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Lincoln

No man suffered greater fools more, and yet managed to persevere. No wonder, especially in years like this, he remains our most revered President. (I always wonder, looking at that photo, what he...

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The Eternal Conservative

“I am born in an age and in a country divided between infidelity on one side and an anarchy of creeds on the other; with none competent to guide me, yet feeling that I must believe, for I hold that...

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The Moose and the Elephant: Leaving the GOP

Lean a little more to the right, maybe? Those who have been reading this blog for some time will notice that we have, once again, undergone a facelift. This time it is for more that aesthetic reasons:...

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What is the West?

Broadly speaking, what we call the West are the countries and peoples formed by the meeting of Greek philosophy, Roman law, and Hebrew religion. There’s a great deal of diversity within the West, but...

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The Sharks are Coming for Fat Albert

I grew up with Bill Cosby. I watched iSpy with my parents. I watched Fat Albert on Saturday mornings (“Nah nah nah, gonna have a good time!”) I saw Mother, Jugs, and Speed at an age when technically...

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An Economic Issue

In a fascinating London Review of Books essay earlier this Spring, the distinguished historian Peter Clarke engages in a singular attempt to resuscitate the reputation of Enoch Powell, the late...

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