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1619 Project

Phil-Magness

1619 Project

Phil Magness: Holding Leftists and Libertarians Accountable

The intellectual watchdog keeps tabs on everyone from The 1619 Project's Nikole Hannah-Jones to Mises Institute's Hans-Hermann Hoppe in the name of serious scholarship.

Nick Gillespie | 9.14.2022 5:00 PM

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Libertarian History/Philosophy

Beyond The 1619 Project: Holding Academics and Journalists Accountable

Intellectual watchdog Phil Magness talks Nikole Hannah-Jones, Nancy MacLean, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Kevin Kruse.

Nick Gillespie | 9.13.2022 3:00 PM

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LGBT

Ohio's Version of 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Undermines School Choice

It's not supporting “parents’ rights” to censor topics at private schools that families decide to send their children to.

Scott Shackford | 4.7.2022 11:55 AM

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Education

Want To Stop School Book Battles? Give Parents Real Choice in Education

State-level "gag orders" on teaching certain texts and ideas are terrible and utterly predictable in a one-size-fits-all K-12 educational system.

Nick Gillespie | 3.29.2022 3:30 PM

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Politics

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

Phillip W. Magness | 3.29.2022 6:30 AM

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School Choice

10 Georgia State Senators—All Republicans—Want To Expand Government Control of Private Schools

You are not for school choice or parents’ rights when you try to ban race and LGBT subjects in private education.

Scott Shackford | 3.9.2022 1:30 PM

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Book Reviews

Expanding Our Understanding of the Revolution

Despite all the controversy it has courted, Woody Holton's newest book doesn't stray very far from other scholarly interpretations of the American Revolution.

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel | 2.9.2022 6:00 AM

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Racism

How To Talk About Racism

Linguist John McWhorter on the ways social justice activists have betrayed black Americans.

Nick Gillespie | 2.1.2022 6:00 AM

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Academic Freedom

State Lawmakers Can't Ban Critical Race Theory on College Campuses

State legislatures have leeway to regulate K-12 curriculum, but attempting the same on college campuses is a violation of academic freedom.

Corey Walker | 1.31.2022 2:36 PM

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Public schools

Nikole Hannah-Jones Doesn't Understand 'The Idea That Parents Should Decide' What Schools Teach

The 1619 Project author thinks Terry McAuliffe had it right.

Robby Soave | 12.28.2021 9:41 AM

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Politics

George Will Loves To Argue About America

The octogenarian columnist has a lot to say about happiness and history in the United States.

Nick Gillespie | 12.23.2021 6:00 AM

1619 Project

Akhil Amar Dismantles The Flawed Dissents in WWH v. Jackson

Amar explains how Roberts and Sotomayor messed up Marbury.

Josh Blackman |The Volokh Conspiracy | 12.15.2021 6:39 PM

1619 Project

Bluebook Adopts Rule Requiring Slavery Parentheticals

"For cases involving an enslaved person as a party, use the parenthetical '(enslaved party).'"

Josh Blackman |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.21.2021 8:29 PM

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Racism

John McWhorter: 'Woke Racism' Has Betrayed Black America

Forget Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi, and The 1619 Project. Start with ending the drug war, says the Columbia University linguist.

Nick Gillespie | 11.19.2021 3:11 PM

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1619 Project

John McWhorter: How To Defeat 'Woke Racism'

The New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguist on the "new religion" he says has "betrayed Black America."

Nick Gillespie | 11.17.2021 4:29 PM

1619 Project

Sean Wilentz Reviews Noah Feldman's New Lincoln Book, "The Broken Constitution"

"Feldman contends that [Jefferson] Davis was right and Lincoln was wrong."

Josh Blackman |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.7.2021 1:52 PM

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Joe Biden

It's Still the Economy, Stupid (Not Critical Race Theory or Trans Bathrooms)

One of the hardest political lessons to learn is that pocketbook issues are the main driving force of electoral successes and failures.

Nick Gillespie | 11.3.2021 12:15 PM

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Racism

Americans Want Racial Diversity More Than Ever Before

People are increasingly tolerant of racial differences.

J.D. Tuccille | 10.18.2021 8:30 AM

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School Choice

The New York Times' Nikole Hannah-Jones Inadvertently Makes the Case for School Choice

What the author gets right—and wrong—about educational freedom

Billy Binion | 10.8.2021 1:58 PM

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Joe Biden

George Will vs. 1619 Project: The U.S. Founding Is 'the Best Thing That Ever Happened'

The Washington Post columnist says President Joe Biden isn't a progressive but "will go where the [Democratic] party goes, and the party is being driven by other people."

Nick Gillespie | 9.21.2021 3:33 PM

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1619 Project

Do Voter ID Laws Undermine the Democratic Process or Ensure Trustworthy Elections?

NYU's Eliza Sweren-Becker debates Hans von Spakovsky of The Heritage Foundation

Gene Epstein | 9.17.2021 12:20 PM

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1619 Project

George Will: Why He's Against Biden, Trump, and the 1619 Project—And Bullish on the Future

When government "gets out of the way, we're going to see again, the creativity of the American people," says the 80-year-old optimist.

Nick Gillespie | 9.15.2021 4:55 PM

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School Choice

Forget Classroom Battles: Homeschooling Is Easier Than Ever

Families looking for alternatives to battlefields of the culture war have a bonanza of educational options.

J.D. Tuccille | 9.7.2021 8:00 AM

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Legislation

The Good and the Bad in the 666 Bills That Took Effect This Week in Texas

While libertarians will be inclined to applaud some of the new laws, others exemplify familiar conservative excesses.

Jacob Sullum | 9.3.2021 4:20 PM

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Book Reviews

America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics

A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.

Phillip W. Magness | 7.31.2021 6:00 AM

1619 Project

Ross Douthat on Structural Racism

David Bernstein |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.4.2021 8:20 PM

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Free Speech

Don't Ban Critical Race Theory in Education. Embrace School Choice Instead.

It's wrong for politicians to suppress important debates in schools. Instead let families have more control of their kids' educations.

Scott Shackford | 6.14.2021 3:05 PM

Campus Free Speech

Regarding Nikole Hannah-Jones and the University of North Carolina

Conservatives should be fighting to open universities up, not to close them down

Keith E. Whittington |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.26.2021 11:16 AM

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Free Speech

1619 Project Author Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill

The surprising move raises concerns about academic freedom.

Robby Soave | 5.20.2021 12:40 PM

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass vs. the 1619 Project

A new book explicates the escaped slave and renowned orator's argument that the Constitution is "a glorious liberty document" that justified ending slavery.

Nick Gillespie | 12.16.2020 2:45 PM

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1619 Project

Damon Root: Why Frederick Douglass Loved the Constitution (and You Should Too)

The escaped slave called the Constitution "a glorious liberty document" that justified extending equality to blacks and women.

Nick Gillespie | 12.9.2020 5:00 PM

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Election 2020

Pro-Trump Latinos Now Being Exiled From the Progressive Coalition

Socialism: Not so popular among those who remember it well.

Robby Soave | 11.4.2020 12:37 PM

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Media Criticism

New York Times Union Hits Times Columnist Bret Stephens for Daring To Criticize the 1619 Project

"It says a lot about an organization when it breaks it's [sic] own rules and goes after one of it's [sic] own," the union tweeted. "The act, like the article, reeks."

Robby Soave | 10.12.2020 8:30 AM

Volokh Conspiracy

Which is it? 1619 or 1776?

Bret Stephens, in what may be his last NYT column, tracks the foundational rewriting of the 1619 Project.

Josh Blackman |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.10.2020 12:44 PM

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Media Criticism

Yes, the 1619 Project Actually Suggests That Year Was America's True Founding, and Nikole Hannah-Jones Admits It

The New York Times tried to disassociate itself from a claim its reporter made just a few days ago.

Robby Soave | 9.23.2020 12:00 PM

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Politics

1619 Project Author Nikole Hannah-Jones Now Says She Never Implied That Year Was America's True Founding

But she did. Repeatedly.

Robby Soave | 9.21.2020 2:40 PM

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Education

Viewpoint Diversity Gets a Boost as Families Flee Public Schools

Independent education means a wide range of approaches as to what children are taught.

J.D. Tuccille | 7.29.2020 8:00 AM

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Violence

In 2020, Words Are 'Violence,' Arson Is Not

The redefinition of the term diminishes actual victims of violence and trivializes why people are protesting.

Billy Binion | 7.3.2020 4:30 PM

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Slavery

Capitalism vs. Slavery…and The New York Times' 1619 Project

Economic historian Phillip W. Magness on classical liberalism and abolition, Abraham Lincoln's contested legacy, and why history matters in contemporary politics.

Nick Gillespie and John Osterhoudt | 4.16.2020 1:30 PM

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1619 Project

What The New York Times' 1619 Project Gets Wrong About Capitalism: Phillip Magness

In a new collection, the economic historian documents how classical liberals pushed for abolition and equality in 19th-century America.

Nick Gillespie | 4.15.2020 4:17 PM

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Politics

1619 Project Fact-Checker Says The New York Times Ignored Her Objections

A history professor disputed some of Nikole Hannah-Jones's claims about slavery and the American Revolution.

Robby Soave | 3.6.2020 1:52 PM

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Politics

The 1619 Project Depicts an America Tainted by Original Sin

In this worldview, redemption for the founding seems impossible.

John McWhorter | 1.30.2020 12:25 PM

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Education

Biased Textbooks Are Just Part of the Public School Curriculum Wars

To reduce conflict over classroom lessons, let people choose their kids’ education.

J.D. Tuccille | 1.30.2020 10:50 AM

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Slavery

Public Schools Are Teaching The 1619 Project in Class, Despite Concerns From Historians

"Mandating the use of The 1619 Project in K-12 curricula is at best premature until these issues are resolved."

Robby Soave | 1.28.2020 9:57 AM

1619 Project

Slavery

The Founders Were Flawed. The Nation Is Imperfect. The Constitution Is Still a 'Glorious Liberty Document.'

As part of its ambitious “1619” inquiry into the legacy of slavery, The New York Times revives false 19th century revisionist history about the American founding.

Timothy Sandefur | 8.21.2019 11:00 AM

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1619 Project

Interesting New York Times Slavery Project Hobbled by Anti-Capitalism

Also: the politics of recession, Bernie's criminal justice plan, and stanning for Barry Manilow, all on the Reason Podcast

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie | 8.19.2019 4:50 PM

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