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To Understand Antivaxers, Consider Aristotle

There is a long history of refusal of scientific discovery; does this explain hesitancy or refusal of COVID vaccines?

Revisiting Kropotkin 180 Years After His Birth

The rise of automation and the concurrent squeeze of workers in the name of profit offer an opportunity to revisit the ideas of Russian anarchis…

Originalism is Doomed to Failure. Will it Destroy Democracy First?

Textualism as a theory of judicial interpretation arose as a semantic game among academics, but has been put to brutal use by the Federalist Soc…

Review: The Architecture of Despair

A Belgian poet took on a morbid project: a book about 13 buildings that, as matters of fact or fable, drove their architects to suicide.

Chait: GOP Door is Now Open to Antisemites

Since World War II, antisemitic conspiracists have been persona non grata in the party. Now, as the Republicans seek to govern with a shrinking…

The Slave Dwelling Project Pushes History of Slave Rebellions to the Public

Joseph McGill Jr. links the history of the Stono Rebellion and subsequent slave uprisings to the current effort to suppress so-called Critical R…

Isaac Chotiner Interviews Kathleen Belew on White Power and the Buffalo Mass Shooting

"The idea is simply that many different kinds of social change are connected to a plot by a cabal of élites to eradicate the white race, which p…

The Nazi in the Classroom

American student Edward Sittler adopted German citizenship after the outbreak of World War II and became a Nazi propagandist. After the war, his…

A White Man Friendly to the Freedom of All Men

Reckoning with the ancestors on my father’s side of the family has been exhausting. I opened that Pandora’s Box and out flew: the colonizers, th…

A Brief History of Dangerous Others

Wielding the outside agitator trope has always, at bottom, been a way of putting dissidents in their place. The allegation is not even necessari…

"It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield": Charles Sumner and the Fight for Equal Naturalization Rights

Senator Charles Sumner lost his battle on the Fourth of July 1870, with dire consequences for both Asian immigrant communities and the prospects…

This Independence Day, Celebrate and Carry On America's Past Generosity

As we celebrate America’s birthday on July 4th, let’s remember how our nation’s generosity has aided many hungry and oppressed people around the…

How Britain and Churchill Repelled the Nazi War Machine (1940-1941)

In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson has not only produced an engaging and timely portrait of the perilous period of when Britain stood alo…

New Novel "The Collaborator" Explores the Moral Ambiguities of a Holocaust Rescuer

Do we have the right to judge the actions of people in life and death situations? Are we honour-bound to keep promises, no matter to whom they w…

Donald Trump Is On His Way to Second or Third Shortest Presidency in American History

The Pence Presidency seems inevitable.