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White People and the Conversation About Race

It is always saddening when reasonable, thoughtful people fail to understand each other’s point of view in important conversations. It is even more unfortunate when they fail to respect each…

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8 min

Politics

Is Liberalism Worth Saving?

Often, a political ideology can be justified on the basis of its principles, despite its many failings in practice. This is how Francis Fukuyama and Patrick Deneen’s interpretations of liberalism…

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10 min

Secularism and American Pluralism

In this 2018 article, Shadi Hamid discusses the importance of a “modest” American pluralism that can accommodate the fact that “there isn’t a common good to be found; that, because…

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4 min

Politics

Bleeding Kenosha: 2020 Echoes of the Conflict that Preceded the Civil War

While black America continues to endure the impact of racism and violence, the fight against racial injustice and brutality is being fought both through the ballot box and in the…

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6 min

¡Bienvenido a los Estados Unidos! A Case for a Bilingual America

In elementary schools across the United States, children have been taught that post-indigenous America began with the arrival of the Mayflower. A simple and unbroken narrative beginning on the eastern…

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10 min

When “The News” Was New

The American news media has spent the past four years in a state of highly public soul-searching about its much vaunted role in maintaining a democratic society. Recent editorial conflicts…

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5 min

Culture & Media

“A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn

Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States considers the history of the US from the perspective of the underdog: the lower classes, workers, women, immigrants, African slaves and their…

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7 min

Politics

The Head Start Myth: What We Get Wrong About the Racial Wealth Gap

Photo by Matt Lee In his book, The Souls of Black Folk, shortly after describing the abhorrent treatment of black laborers by white landowners in the late 1800s, W. E. B.…

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7 min

Politics

The Vicious Cycle Of Racial Polarization

If it weren’t already obvious from the recent mass protests and riots across America and the world in response to the gruesome police killing of George Floyd, race is one…

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US History

White People and the Conversation About Race

Is Liberalism Worth Saving?

Secularism and American Pluralism

Bleeding Kenosha: 2020 Echoes of the Conflict that Preceded the Civil War

¡Bienvenido a los Estados Unidos! A Case for a Bilingual America

When “The News” Was New

“A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn

The Head Start Myth: What We Get Wrong About the Racial Wealth Gap

The Vicious Cycle Of Racial Polarization

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