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Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.
Crimes, no matter how heinous, cannot be passed onto the progeny like some modern variant of the original sin, condemning them to unending purgatory.
The ranks of this new ruling class are refreshed by immigrant academics who come to understand themselves in the way progressivism understands them: as minorities who can also act victim-like if they want—a precious endowment in the cultural academic market.
In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia.
In some former British colonies, confronting the dispossession and murder of native peoples has prompted efforts at apology and restitution.
A long-ago speech by a foreign dignitary may hold the key to recovering some lost wisdom about how America came into this role in the first place.
Finding out the truth about any aspect of Hunter Thompson’s life is frustrating given his propensity for self-mythologising.
The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion.
It is into such pathologies that The Captive Mind delves, and why it has such application to our time.
Andrews believes none of this. He is right in seeing that the United States is now the world’s foremost imperial nation—it dominated most of the 20th century, assuming the white man’s burden from the British and the French.
The film gave me nightmares and panic attacks. I did what I could with such difficult information.
A huge part of Duncan’s appeal is his humble, layman’s approach.
Hong Kong’s political culture is being dismantled.
When we value skills over knowledge, we get doctors who can’t name a supreme court justice.
In the present moment, reverence for the law is not yet (or is no longer) a political religion in the United States.