What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is coming to tea, but we have watched the feckless Algernon eat all the cucumber...
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GEORGIA: A new push to change Georgia law concerning Stone Mountain’s Confederate monument Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the largest Confederate carving in the country — has been a point of contention for...
Good for the Jews? No.
I probably don’t agree with anything Mahmoud Khalil has to say about Israel. He’s the Columbia University student activist who has been arrested and threatened with deportation in the name of fighting antisemitism. Trampling on free speech rights is no way...
How Racial Realignment Ignited the Culture War
How did Americans become politically divided on culture war topics like guns, abortion, women’s role, gay rights, and environmentalism? The common story is that it took polarizers from the top: politicians and activists associated with each party moved the public to...Obiter Dicta
A little over a year ago, I spent a week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: New N.C. bill would introduce AAPI history to school curriculum A new bill in the N.C. General Assembly is calling for Asian American and Pacific Islander history to Read More