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Opinion | Sally Hemings Takes Center Stage; New York Times
“Why bother researching [history] if we are unwilling to allow ourselves to be surprised, informed and disabused of preconceptions of how a situation [Jefferson and Hemings] must have unfolded?”
Introducing Better Angels
“An American Declaration” serves as a sort of founding document for Better Angels although it has been alive and growing since the 2016 presidential elections
The ‘Fascist’ and the Trans
What happens when a much-reviled far-right activist sits down for a face-to-face dialogue with a 19-year-old transgender woman who happens to be politically conservative?
Can We All Be Racist?
My anti-racist friends tell me I just don’t understand, or recognize, the systemic nature of racism. But no culture lives under just one system.
Atonement as Activism – The American Interest
John McWhorter: Today’s consciousness-raising on race is less about helping black people than it is about white people seeking grace.
Junot Díaz: Condemn the Writer, Not the Writing | National Review
What about you? Who is the troubled, flawed or despicable individual whose artistics achievements you admire?
