A collection of 8 posts
Americans who may have ferocious disagreements about the size of government, foreign policy, and a wide range of other issues must find a way to unite around their shared commitment to the liberal idea.
Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual.
Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
The 1619 Project is, strangely, a history project that encourages forgetting as much as it remembers.
Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?
Skateboarding is simple and complex, pointless and transformational.
There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines.
This vision of universal human rights based on our common humanity was the common ground shared by these two antislavery giants in American history, and it is the common ground now renounced by the 1619 Project.