History as End
1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
Matthew Karp Harper's Jun 2021 25min Permalink
Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment.
Dave Gilson Mother Jones Apr 2021 20min Permalink
Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!
Jeb Lund Welcome To Hell World Jul 2020 15min Permalink
A Chinese-American woman's past and present collide.
Yiyun Li New Yorker Apr 2018 20min Permalink
How an education reform effort became the new Obamacare.
Tim Murphy Mother Jones Sep 2014 25min Permalink
The case of Brett Kimberlin.
David Weigel The Daily Beast Aug 2014 10min Permalink
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. Searching the library of my college, I found Marx, Lenin, and Mao, but no Strauss, Voegelin, Hayek, or Friedman. I found every variety of socialist monthly, weekly, or quarterly, but not a single journal that confessed to being conservative.
A young Brit goes against the political grain.
Roger Scruton New Criterion Feb 2003 1h25min Permalink
A profile of twenty-seven-year-old James O’Keefe, who came to national attention during the last election after his prank videos stung ACORN and Planned Parenthood. A subsequent attempt to bug Senator Mary Landrieu’s phones resulted in jail time for O’Keefe.
Zev Chafets New York Times Magazine Jul 2011 1h10min Permalink