"Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?" W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1935
HAHAHA the W. E. B. Du Bois chair and Dean of social sciences wants you to know that faculty should be punished for encouraging students to protest
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
This is a New York Times op-ed about Netanyahu, suggesting that the U.S. government's patience with him should come to an end.
It was published twenty-six years ago.
Great interview with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, with sharp observations about the "political correctness in comedy" discourse
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/m...
Making emancipation a US war aim transformed the Civil War, James A. Garfield declared in 1868 on Decoration Day (the precursor to Memorial Day).
It "made the soul of John Brown the marching companion of our soldiers," he said. "The struggle consecrated...every man who bore a worthy part.” 🗃️
Dawned on me awhile ago:
Donald Trump: inherited 8-figure business from dad, billionaire
RFK Jr: wealthy lawyer and basically a trust fund Kennedy kid
Cornell West: Harvard prof with tax issues
Jill Stein: perennial Green candidate/grifter
Joe Biden: actual middle class guy
A broad coalition of the Kennedy family will endorse President Biden on Thursday at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, rejecting one of their own in Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose independent bid has worried some Democrats.
if there’s one thing i’ve learned it’s that the following is true more often than not, and that people also will refuse to accept all three can be true simultaneously