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Whose Freedom?
On the ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.
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David A. Bell
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New York Review of Books
on
September 2, 2021
There Was an Ashli Babbitt in the 19th Century. His Story Is a Warning.
To understand the right’s plans for Babbitt, look to George Shiffler.
by
Zachary M. Schrag
via
Slate
on
September 1, 2021
The 9/11 Museum and Its Discontents
A new documentary goes inside the battles that have riven the institution and shaped the historical legacy of the attack.
by
David Klion
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Intelligencer
on
August 26, 2021
Daddy Issues
The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.
by
Bethany Moreton
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Dissent
on
August 25, 2021
New Documents Reveal the Bloody Origins of America's Long War On Drugs
When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal.
by
Benjamin T. Smith
via
TIME
on
August 24, 2021
Bad Information
Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.
by
Nicolas Guilhot
via
Boston Review
on
August 23, 2021
The Radical Capitalist Behind the Critical Race Theory Furor
How a dark-money mogul bankrolled an astroturf backlash.
by
Jasmine Banks
via
The Nation
on
August 13, 2021
The Incoherence of American History
We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.
by
Osita Nwanevu
via
The New Republic
on
August 11, 2021
Pictures at a Restoration
On Pete Souza’s Obama.
by
Blair McClendon
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n+1
on
August 10, 2021
Echo Chambers
Parallels between the American Revolution and the U.S. Capitol riot.
by
Sarah Swedberg
via
Nursing Clio
on
August 5, 2021
How the War on Terror Undermined American Democracy
Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.
by
Patrick Iber
via
The New Republic
on
August 5, 2021
A Warning Ignored
America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.
by
Jelani Cobb
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 29, 2021
Where Would We Be Without the New Deal?
A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.
by
Michael Kazin
via
The Nation
on
July 26, 2021
The US Tax Code Should Not Allow Billionaires to Exist
The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.
by
Josh Mound
via
Jacobin
on
July 20, 2021
3 Tropes of White Victimhood
Leading conservative pundits today are pounding themes that were popular among opponents of Reconstruction.
by
Lawrence B. Glickman
via
The Atlantic
on
July 20, 2021
What Should You Do With a Captured Nazi Flag?
During WWII, American soldiers brought the flags home as a remembrance. Now, family members and historians must decide what should become of them.
by
Reina Gattuso
via
Atlas Obscura
on
July 19, 2021
Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History
The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
via
TIME
on
July 16, 2021
The Legacy of 9/11
After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.
by
Stephen Wertheim
via
Prospect Magazine
on
July 14, 2021
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A Major Supreme Court First Amendment Decision Could be at Risk
Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.
by
Samantha Barbas
via
Made By History
on
July 13, 2021
The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6
How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.
by
Bennett Parten
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
July 13, 2021
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