History

Don’t Confuse Sesame Place with Jim Crow 0
- Culture, History, Politics
- August 4, 2022
“Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s five-year-old son six decades ago. A Baltimore family recently filed a $25 million class action racial discrimination lawsuit against Sesame Place, a Muppets-themed amusement park outside Philadelphia. A video showed a Muppet character named Rosita high-fiving white kids while
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Hannah Arendt’s Chilling Thesis on Evil 4
- History, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 2, 2022
Nine months after the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann died at the end of a noose in Israel, a controversial but thoughtful commentary about his trial appeared in The New Yorker. The public reaction stunned its author, the famed political theorist and Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). It was February 1963. Arendt’s eyewitness assessment of
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Courage, Resilience, and the American Dream 2
- History, Literature
- August 1, 2022
The weeds needed pulling. Branches needed trimming. Dishes and silverware had piled up on the sink board. Books, papers, and crayons—the grandchildren were visiting—littered the dining room table and needed to be stowed away before supper. Yet there I sat on the front porch, drinking a Diet Coke, mesmerized by Rose Wilder Lane’s Let the
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‘Woke’ Tour Guides Now Mangle History at Monticello 12
- Culture, Education, History, Politics
- July 15, 2022
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. Substitute “Jefferson” for “Caesar” in Marc Anthony’s funeral speech, and you have a tidy summation of the guided “woke” tours at Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello. On July 5th—the day after our nation once
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A Candle in the Darkness, a Call to Enlist Against Tyranny 10
- Culture, History
- July 13, 2022
Staying upbeat these days sometimes requires the strength of a Samson, the mind-set of a Millennialist, the heart of a Pollyanna, and a bottle of New Amsterdam Vodka. I lacked all of these weapons one recent evening. I’ve taken a leave of absence from alcohol, and the other attributes were as remote from me as
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To Gain More Freedom, American Morality Must Increase 9
- History, Culture, Religion
- June 21, 2022
American morality is in decline, and the population is starting to take note. Half of Americans—a record high number—now rate U.S. morals as “poor,” according to a recent Gallup poll. “Consideration of others” is the leading indicator of this moral decline, Americans say, followed by “racism/discrimination.” Yet we really didn’t need a poll to tell
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