The arc of political discourse
Steven Hayward gives us a history lesson on how vicious political discourse has long been in this country. Please read the whole thing.
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The long slow march of leftism
On this blog we’ve talked many times about the Gramscian march, the slow and steady and dedicated work of the left on the hearts and minds of Americans. This work has borne tremendous fruit, and may have reached a critical … Continue reading →
About that citizenship census question: moving the Overton Window
I recently went into some depth on the history of the citizenship question in the US Census: I’ve done some genealogical research online about my family, and looked at quite a few census pages in many different years. Questions about … Continue reading →
On the Betsy Ross flag and Nike
A good take on the topic is this National Review article by Jonah Goldberg, from which I’ll quote liberally: Nike was all set to release a line of sneakers for the Fourth of July featuring the original Betsy Ross American … Continue reading →
A little history lesson for AOC on camps, concentration and other
Not that AOC actually cares about history. AOC is a rabble rouser and a demagogue. She may be ignorant about a particular fact or she may actually know the truth and be blatantly lying about it. But either way, she … Continue reading →
Thoughts on viewing—and hearing—D-Day newsreels
Online you can easily find many clips from documentaries and newsreels about D-Day. If you do (as I did today), you may almost immediately notice—as I did—the narration. The voices used back then had an utterly different tone from anything … Continue reading →
There’s a tremendous flaw (actually, several) in the reasoning of this article in Reason, comparing Trump’s tariffs to the Berlin Wall
Law professor Ilya Somin makes a very poor analogy between Trump’s Mexican tariffs and the Berlin Wall in this article entitled and subtitled, “Trump’s Plan to Force Mexico to Lock In its Own People: The President’s effort to coerce Mexico … Continue reading →
Germany: kippas off, kippas on
There’s been a brouhaha in Germany over the wearing of the skullcap by traditional Jews: At the weekend, Felix Klein, the country’s commissioner on anti-Semitism sparked uproar when he said in an interview with the Funke regional press group that … Continue reading →
Teaching about cotton is apparently offensive
This doesn’t appear to be some sort of spoof: A cotton plant growing at Campbell Elementary School [in Arlington, Virginia] drew criticism online today, but Arlington Public Schools said allegations that staff were going to make kids “pick cotton” was … Continue reading →
Israel’s 71st birthday, and Tlaib’s recent remarks on the Holocaust and the founding of Israel
Rashida Tlaib has been getting a lot of flak, and rightly so, for some remarks she made recently about Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust. The context was a question about the one-state solution, and this is the part of … Continue reading →
Exploring Doggerland
An ambitious expedition is about to start, with a mission to map the undersea area known as Doggerland, and in particular to take samples to see if any trace of human habitation can be found. I’ve written about Doggerland before. … Continue reading →
I can’t decide whether these people are the new Taliban or the new Red Guard
Maybe it doesn’t even matter which it is, because the impulse is the same whether it’s supposedly religious or supposedly secular/leftist: to destroy history and its representations and replace them with the new orthodoxy. The deeper motive is to indoctrinate … Continue reading →