When even professional wrestling calls out the Washington Racists for their actual team name, you know that some kind of corner has been turned.
Author: Erik Loomis
On June 23, 1855, a 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly.
With the Civil War sesquicentennial and the World War I centennial beginning, the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement's major victories has not received the attention I'd like to.
Scott has said much of what needs to be said about Jennifer Roesch's Jacobin article calling for the "radical left" to break with the Democratic Party. The problems with this article are numerous, for it blithely avoids providing useful historical context or examples of how...
What does "Redskins" mean exactly? What is germane to the conversation? What is semantics? That is debatable. The fact remains that to many Native Americans, the term “redskin” has long.
Tony Gwynn is significantly underrated.
Not that it's surprising that any writer or reader with even reasonable taste would reject Ayn Rand as horrible writing, but still, Flannery O'Connor in 1960: I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as...
The great jazz pianist has died at the age of 85.
In yesterday's post on prison labor and cheese making, Happy Jack left this amazing powerpoint presentation by Colorado Correctional Industries, the private prison mafia. Entitled, "Motivating Prisoners to Become Business.
Let me recommend Trish Kahle's Jacobin piece on the Miners for Democracy (1970s reformist United Mine Workers members) and the potential of energy workers embracing environmentalism. Brief excerpt: Ultimately, the group of miners arguing for an energy workers union federation — or even a new...
Don't have a date on this, but if I was a Cold War American, I would feel pretty good about a nuclear attack eliminating all those takers. Found a report.