Capitalism Trumps Hate
CEOs have often been ahead of cops and politicians on gay rights.
What happens when a prank or spoof sparks a real belief?
What happens when a decades-long mystery gets solved while you’re explaining it?
Those smitten by John Wayne, Robert E. Lee, or even Joseph Stalin should commission statues on their own property. The rest of us have more important issues to debate.
The media and activists are using revisionist history of the Stonewall Riots to fit their intersectional narrative.
Walter Duranty and The New York Times have blood on their hands in this historical re-enactment.
A look at war through the lens of the performance enhancers that help make it possible
We should celebrate our fandom on our own dime, and on our own property.
Frederick Douglass: "There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
Our reality is now Fox Mulder, Dale Gribble, Chief Wiggum, and a home movie of a guy getting hit in the groin.
The perpetual scapegoat for unrest
If you are unwilling to do whatever you can to stop injustice, injustice is all the more likely to continue unabated.
In the winding hills above Hollywood, musical history was made.
The anti-voucher polemic is augmented by historical half-truths and selective omissions of countervailing evidence.
While Europe was in revolt, America had its own Free Soil revolution of 1848.
Is COVID-19 bringing the mythology of America as a nation of immigrants to an end? Q&A with The New York Times' Jia Lynn Yang
Little Richard helped make the United States a little more black, a little more queer, and a little more free.
Hawley is charting the next path for the Trump-style anti-trade nationalism that has infected the Republican Party.
A lost volume of American history finds the light of day.
Economic historian Phillip W. Magness on classical liberalism and abolition, Abraham Lincoln's contested legacy, and why history matters in contemporary politics.
Sometimes pressure causes breakdowns, but sometimes it causes breakthroughs.
In a new collection, the economic historian documents how classical liberals pushed for abolition and equality in 19th-century America.
The more punitive the approach to public health, the fiercer the backlash.
Friday A/V Club: Daniel Tucker discusses his documentary Local Control: Karl Hess in the World of Ideas—and we also screen the movie itself.
Amity Shlaes concludes in her new book that grand governmental schemes to broadly reorder society are doomed to fail.
Though focused on manufacturing and banking, this study sees economic optimism in quick and thorough interventions to keep people isolated.
The biggest thing our institutions could do to stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation would be to spread less misinformation themselves.
A big contraction was followed by a bustling aftermath—but with notable negative long-term effects as well.
Thought during an epidemic from a defender of freedom
HBO's adaptation of Philip Roth's novel is much more interesting when viewed on its own merits.
A history professor disputed some of Nikole Hannah-Jones's claims about slavery and the American Revolution.
Maybe Rome needed to disintegrate before the West could grow wealthy.
The Holocaust and its fallout can be tackled with humor. But this Amazon show fails at its aims.
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
Episode 10 of Free Speech Rules, a video series by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
In this worldview, redemption for the founding seems impossible.
A century ago, the Wilson administration cracked down on immigrant anarchists. The raids lasted three months, and their impact was felt for decades.
"It's a disservice to undergrads," said one student.
The deeply human Harriet Tubman who emerges in Dunbar's book was exhausted, frustrated—and heroic.
Amity Shlaes's new history of the late 1960s explains the failure of the last time the federal government tried to fix all that was wrong with America.
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