The medieval historian Jay Rubenstein asks the question! The Antichrist associated with this new, literal Babylon was expected to be Jewish. There’s nearly always an anti-Judaic element in Christian apocalyptic..
This is the grave of Cyrus McCormick. Born in 1809 in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, he grew up a tinkerer. His father was an inventor of agricultural machines. The father had.
For tonight's film, let's watch Martin Luther King's 1967 speech at Stanford. Titled "The Other America," here he laid out his late-life quest to fight poverty in a cross-racial campaign.
Good. G. Gordon Liddy, the undercover operative whose bungling of the Watergate break-in triggered one of the gravest constitutional crises in American history and led to the resignation of President.
When nihilists like Greg Abbott prematurely lift and preempt mask mandates, they put ordinary minimum wage workers who don't want to be exposed do a deadly virus in an incredibly.
This is a follow-on to Erik's post yesterday about university administrators using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse for further neoliberal decimation of the humanities, even as they continue to.
The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center has a report out about forced labor from Turkmenistan in the cotton supply chains. It's a pretty bloody awful story. Cotton bound for global markets from.
Interesting stuff at the Monkey Cage on the cultural relevance of guns to America's white conservatives: Studies find that gun rights supporters are highly politically organized and unwavering on their views, while gun.
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