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May 2023
Imperialism as a Lifestyle
“Wave at them, but have a plan to kill them.” – General James Mattis Here’s a fine how-do-you-do for Memorial Day. My title is prompted by my reading…
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A Few Notes on Whiteness
"If all our nice friends in Beacon Street, and Newport, and Fifth Avenue, and Philadelphia, have one child, or no child at all, while all the Finnegans…
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Down the U.S. History Rabbit-Hole
I don’t remember how I got into this. I was wrestling with Adolph Reed’s bracing critique of anti-racism. I picked up “The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors…
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Local Trumpies' One-Trick Pony Trots Out
The Loudoun County MAGA Outrage Machine has been cranked up again. This time it’s a close replay of the bogus scandal of 2021, when liberals in a…
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Reading Around, I, May 2023
The author of "You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again" is Julia Phillips, a female pioneer in the movie business. She produced The Sting and Taxi…
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1619 Vs. 1492
I read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s (RDO) An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. For me it’s an eye-opener. I’m no instant expert; this is all…
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April 2023
How Trump Operatives Destroy a Democratic School Board
(I haven’t posted in a while. I started wondering, are there other cases where MAGA agitation basically blew up an entire Democratic-majority school…
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Getting to Free College
I wrote this paper for the Center for Economic and Policy Research. What I think is a key insight is that the cause of “free college” — meaning the…
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Just a reminder to my paid subscribers. I am no longer running for office, and your automatic donations now go into my Pizza for World Peace account. If…
Iceland Notes and Memories of Underdevelopment
We just got back, and I want to celebrate both Nordic social-democracy and the most magical landscape I’ve ever had the pleasure to experience. Endless…
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