Surviving Nagasaki
History, memory, and nuclear devastation
The complicated political dynamics between rich presidential candidates and poorer ones far predate the 20th century.
A new book shines some light on the violent radicals of the 1970s but misses their biggest impact on American politics.
The ravages of Hiroshima; the misery of unfunny summer comedies
Free speech, flags, a police riot, and the other time Bill Buckley called Gore Vidal a queer
Does the Privileges or Immunities Clause protect unenumerated rights?
The attempt to airbrush historical stuff from the present is the height of authoritarianism.
The City by the Bay has a second, private police force...with a better record than the government cops.
One of the odder artifacts of the Spanish Civil War
What Sanders' third-party home had to say about guns in 1972
A further reply to conservative law professor Kurt Lash
Just try to order a Guinness in a regular bank.
Laogai prison survivor Harry Wu on human rights abuses in China.
A reply to conservative law professor Kurt Lash.
A look at the flotsam and jetsam of culture keeps floating back to the same dark places.
"Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document."
Lyndon Johnson's war on crime
Anti-Confederate flag push led to some absurd outcomes that are being rolled back.
A Stanford historian thinks war is the engine that drives civilization. Is he right?
Apple Store, Amazon drop products that are clearly not about upholding racist or segregationist views.
People demand "gun control" while grieving over the racist massacre in Charleston, but gun rights have proven pivotal to black Americans' safety and freedom.
For decades, the feds would actively try to destroy the lives of homosexuals.
Wedding cakes were once the least of their problems.
Understanding Justice Thomas' vote in Walker v. Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and the role it has played in Charleston
The president's rationalization for autocratic military action is a license for unchecked global war.
If Magna Carta was a key moment in the West's advancement toward classical liberalism, the trajectory was neither straight nor smooth.
...and the Progressive Era's rather different approach to the national banner
Docudrama series on AMC mixes archival footage with actor recreations.
Plus an anti-metrification argument from the Whole Earth Catalog's Stewart Brand
Epic piece about how the threads that make the clothes we wear are figuratively the fabric of our lives.
Conservative legal pundits take aim at "judicial supremacy."
Premieres tonight at 9pm ET.
Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder and serial abuser of executive power. Harriet Tubman championed human freedom.
It's important not to conflate philosophy and strategy.
The individualistic works and lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
How the left, the right, and the middle looked in 1967
Just as I predicted seven years ago
Bans on private education have already been tried and rejected in the U.S.
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