The Great Migration of African Americans from the Jim Crow South was a monumental event in American history. The character of the country as a whole was, arguably, transformed. Volumes have been published on its sweeping impact, but Resisting Segregation by Susan Kaeser tells the story of what happened in
Last spring an all-too familiar and frankly commonplace tragedy sparked a nearly unprecedented, worldwide movement in the protests for racial justice that followed the taped killing of George Floyd. The way people of every race and nationality came together in massive protests, along with the police violence that met them,
Last week following the fascist insurrection at the Capitol Building, Twitter permanently suspended Republican President Donald Trump’s account. The company explained that Trump’s constant false claims of election fraud in 2020 were inciting violence. Some First Amendment advocates, like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), quickly responded with
As Israel enters another round of elections, it seems clear that something is seriously wrong. Over the past two years, Israelis have gone to the polls three times to elect a government. On March 23, 2021, they will do so again. Each time, the government has fallen. This ongoing instability
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat (better known as the Marquis de Condorcet) was a pioneer in probability theory, a revolutionary, a constitutionalist, and a martyr for the Enlightenment. His life story and tragic death have been the subject of many philosophical and biographical histories. One biography in particular, J. Salwyn Schapiro’s
There was a period during the Trump presidency when it was defensible to believe he was too incompetent and too narrowly self-interested to be any more dangerous than a typical president, even if few would argue he was a typical president. The events of 2020 shattered that optimism, as Trump
In Adam Smith’s second book—An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, popularly known as simply The Wealth of Nations—he asked why almost all countries at the time of writing were poor except for northwest Europe. His answer was in the first line:
New census data has given us a clear picture of the child poverty crisis in America. It found that 1 in 6 children in America are living in poverty, which amounts to nearly one-third of the 38.1 million people living in poverty in the United States. Nearly 12 million
Concentration camps, re-education centers, destruction of cultural and historical institutions, and a repressive state apparatus going after religious believers; this is not a description of a fictional dystopia, but rather of the situation millions of people within Xinjiang face today. One might think that this struggle is limited to Xinjiang
The homeless population of America carries with it undue burdens unique among wealthy nations. While Canadian researchers have recently experimented with new methods of welfare for their own homeless population, America has done its best to ignore the ever growing issue across the nation. During the current COVID-19 pandemic however,
President Donald Trump may have lost the election, but Trumpism is not going away any time soon. Trump and his cult of personality have forever changed the Republican party and its base, laying the groundwork for a culture of abrasive incivility and unabashed bigotry. Trumpism is the right-wing political movement
“My textile exploration began in wonder,” Virginia Postrel writes at the end of her magnificent new book, The Fabric of Civilization. “As I heard from scholars, scientists, and businesspeople (. . .) I was repeatedly struck by what a fundamental technology textiles represent, what world-shaking consequences they’ve had, and how remarkable much