JFK Conspiracies Are Slowly Dying
Browsing responses to the recent release of assassination documents, this is where the best reporting and analysis can be found.
Craig Colgan
· 12 min read
American History
A collection of 15 posts
American Centrism Has Failed
Hillary Clinton was evidently a centrist all along, prizing vague pragmatism, hawkish foreign policy and entrenched norms instead of a unique political vision.
Alexander Blum
· 8 min read
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and Violence
We should work to devise effective solutions to continue that progress, rather resorting to using all men as scapegoats for the violence that remains.
Gideon Scopes
· 14 min read
E Pluribus Unum — From Many, One
The centripetal tendency, if unchecked, ends in a black hole, in narrow paranoia, in the life-denying singularity of fundamentalism or fascism.
David Lucas
· 10 min read
What to Do with Confederate Statues
Many Russian people lived through the Soviet experience. Not so for the Confederacy.
James Glaser
· 5 min read
Is America Heading for Civil War?
The escalating political rhetoric on both sides has led Pat Buchanan to ask openly what some on the American Right have been pondering privately for a while.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
The Battle Over "American Carnage"
If it is important to show commonalities in black and white life in America, are we succeeding in doing so?
Dan Subotnik
· 5 min read
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Created Political Gridlock in the US
From an evolutionary perspective the current domestic political crisis can thus be understood as an aftershock of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Bill von Hippel
· 5 min read
The New Trump-ian Order
What I have outlined above are valid critiques of Trump’s policies which need to be vigorously pursued through constitutional channels and via Senatorial and Congressional opposition.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Reassessing Cultural Divisions in the United States
There can be no doubt that the current American political landscape is characterized by polarization and extremism in many forms.
Preston Stovall
· 9 min read
How Will History Remember Obama?
Mostly, however, it was just disappointment. In both race relations and foreign relations, Obama unleashed forces, either deliberately or carelessly, which were beyond his control.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Five Key Debate Moments That Altered the Course of a Presidential Race
Some famous moments in debate history have reinforced the public’s negative perceptions of candidates, while other key moments have helped dispel such notions.
Robert Speel
· 6 min read
Review: Hillbilly Elegy — J.D. Vance
Through it he tells the story of hillbillies, impoverished immigrants who came from Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth century to settle in the American south.
Irene Ogrizek
· 4 min read
FBI Director Comey: Straight Shooter or Feckless Careerist? How About Neither
FBI Director Comey's call not to charge Hillary Clinton aimed to avoid political turmoil in a charged climate.
Deion Kathawa
· 5 min read
The Rise of Donald Trump
Trump has parlayed the fear, loathing, and restlessness of those who feel left behind by postindustrial America into an impressive presidential campaign.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 11 min read