How Would Frederick Douglas View Today’s Left?
Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave — nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from learning to read — and rose from slavery to become, along with Abraham Lincoln, the greatest orator of his...
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NORTH CAROLINA: Town Continues to Weight Options on Downed Confederatre Monument The Town of Weldon continues to discuss options regarding the Confederate monument that an intoxicated driver had toppled and damaged last month. On Tuesday, Town Administrator Vincent...
When The State Punishes Thoughts
Four members of the Proud Boys were recently convicted of sedition in federal court in Washington, D.C. Sedition is a conspiracy to overthrow the federal government by the use of force. The case stems from the events of Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol. During the...Seven State Flags Still Have Designs With Ties to the Confederacy
Amid the racial justice protests of 2020, when Confederate statues all over the country toppled, Mississippi became the last state to remove the Confederate battle flag from its state flag. It was a moment of reckoning for the Lost Cause mythology about the Civil War...Our Dangerous Narcissists
If you’re like me, you’ve gotten a bellyful of AI analysis, speculation and dire warnings over the past few months. Alongside hopes of cancer cures, obedient home robots, personalized tutors, energy efficiency and wildlife preservation, we’ve heard...Obiter Dicta
In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: Buried military site emerges on NC’s Outer Banks, prompting beach contamination alert A stretch of Outer Banks beach within North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore was closed Thursday, Read More