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The inside game and the outside game: procedure plus a mob
John Eastman co-wrote the blueprint for how Donald Trump could use the military, the police and criminal gangs to hold onto power.
We shouldn’t teach American exceptionalism in schools. It’s dangerous, stupid and bad
Only by understanding the truth can we navigate a world left to us.
Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: There’s a ‘CRT’ in your school. You should love it!
This is the alternative narrative progressives can employ.
Abate lead, reduce crime, defund police?
An excellent potential approach.
Theocrats and some liberals are wrong. The real problem is a growing religious movement to annihilate freedom of religion
On Mike Flynn and Josh Mandel.
If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. In the meantime, be kind
An appreciation for my father-in-law.
Kyle Rittenhouse’s actions fit into a long history of state-supported white vigilantism in America
His defense hopes to capitalize on white panic.
Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and the sensibility of freedom
A 76-year-old essay teaches us how to be free.
In the controversy over ‘race’ in public education, journalists can’t cover the story properly by amplifying white voices only
That Black people are invisible from the public education debate shows just how intellectually impoverished the conversation is.
Americans are calling Build Back Better progressive. It’s actually moderate and pro-business
The Biden agenda is common sense.