A Botched Execution in Alabama
On the history of punishment.
History
Choose Your Own Adventure
Propaganda, games, and the quest for a more 'democratic' media environment.
Scalia's Factual Flub Is Part of a Long Supreme Court Tradition
Our addled Supreme Court justices.
A Constitutional Case for Gay Marriage
The Equal Protection Clause demands equal treatment for same-sex couples.
The Communist Party's Role in the Rise of Joseph McCarthy
No, not some crazy Manchurian Candidate scenario
Four Great Myths of the McCarthy Era
Sixty years after the Army-McCarthy hearings, we should reexamine some of our accumulated lore about the period.
Assassins, Witches, Secret Societies, and Skepticism: Jesse Walker Discusses Conspiracy Theories With the National Capital Area Skeptics
A talk recorded in Bethesda on April 5.
Friday A/V Club: Let These Marionettes Demonstrate How to Save Your Cows in the Event of a Nuclear Attack
Some strange old civil defense spots
Friday A/V Club: A Nightmare Vision of a World Without Congress
The 1947 "instructional" film The Powers of Congress
Friday A/V Club: That Time Thomas the Tank Engine Was a Scab
The most right-wing project any Beatle was ever involved with
Ronald Reagan: Hawk, Dove, or 'It's Complicated'?
Republicans check their WWRRD? bracelets.
For Anyone Who Wonders What Thomas Frank Thinks of the Films of Harold Ramis…
Liberals do not "own the imagery of subversion and outsiderness."
Labor Corporatism Fails In Volkswagen Union Vote
The curious conservatism of a left-wing cause
No, It Isn't Surprising That Ghostbusters Mocked the Government
Anti-authoritarian movies and anti-authoritarian public policy
George Washington: Boozehound
Prodigious alcohol consumption by Washington and his fellow founding fathers has been whitewashed from American history.
Friday A/V Club: Fascism, Anarchy, and Democracy in After-School Clubs
Kurt Lewin's experiment in leadership styles: the movie
How Writers Coped Without Copyright
Intellectual property and piracy managed to co-exist in 19th-century America.
The Bizarre New Deal Comedy That Made Shirley Temple a Star
Watch the 1934 movie Stand Up and Cheer.
The Progressive Lineage of Macklemore's And Lorde's Attacks on the Pleasures of the Poor
"That kind of luxe just ain't for us": Where pop culture, progressives, and puritanical values meet
Political Nonviolence, Private Self-Defense
Armed self-defense and the black freedom movement.
The Vanity of American Exceptionalism
Charles Murray's latest mixes American history with self-flattery.
