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November 2020

November 23, 2020

Better Dead Than Red, Pandemic Edition

I see a common thread in all of these fears---communism, government control, wolves in sheep's...

November 09, 2020

Answers in Genesis Accuses Josephus (but not the New Testament) of Bias

Cook accurately discusses the norms among historians during the first century, but because he views...

June 2020

June 11, 2020

Pulling Down Statues Is Not the Same as Blasting Sacred Sites

So I thought I'd take a moment to explain the difference between what's happening here...

June 09, 2020

A Tale of Many Statues

This weekend, in Bristol, UK, protestors allying themselves with the Black Lives Matter movement in...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

On Answers in Genesis’ Portrayal of Noah’s Son’s Wives

Who did Noah's sons' children marry? Presumably they married their cousins, and not their siblings...

April 16, 2020

If Republicans are the party of Lincoln, why do they fly Confederate flags?

The Republican party has become the party that defends statues erected by white supremacists to...

March 2020

March 02, 2020

Military to Remove Confederate Flags from Marine Corps Institutions

That's right. Military institutions that were founded to put down slave rebellions---military institutions that were...

January 2020

January 20, 2020

Was Martin Luther King a Republican? A Historical Primer.

I worry that many on the right can't see history outside of points scoring. And...

January 15, 2020

Fake News and Public School Textbooks

We talk a lot about "fake news" today, and about media bubbles, and about people...

January 14, 2020

The Federalist: “If People Can’t Get Married On Plantations, They Can’t Get Married Anywhere”

There is a difference between solid historical tourism and whitewashed celebration of the past. Activists...

January 06, 2020

Bret Stephens: Suleimani Wasn’t Like That Good Nazi

Few people have a problem with attempts to assassinate enemy generals ... in war time. If we...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

Recognizing the Native American Genocide Is Not a Threat

This leaves me genuinely curious whether Erdogan knows how different things are in the United...

December 10, 2019

We Need to Talk about White Women and Race

As much as we white women would like to pretend that we're not like that,...

November 2019

November 28, 2019

This Thanksgiving, Let’s Talk about King Philip’s War

I grew up hearing about Squanto and Massasoit and the friendly Native Americans who traded...

October 2019

October 09, 2019

The Condition of Being Enslaved

Good treatment by enslavers is a smokescreen. It's bullshit, it's flatly disproven when you look...

September 2019

September 02, 2019

Happy “I’m Sorry We Shot Those Strikers” Day!

It's Labor Day! You know, that holiday we've all forgotten has with the word "labor"...

August 2019

August 21, 2019

Why We Need the New York Times’ 1619 Project

I'm looking forward to seeing where The 1619 Project goes from here. I've long lamented...

August 06, 2019

Donald Trump, George Washington, and the White Supremacist Presidency

I understand why people (myself included) so often treat Trump as an aberration---there certainly are...

February 2019

February 11, 2019

The Founding Fathers, in Their Infinite Wisdom

If all three of these men---Governor Ralph Northam, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, and Attorney General...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

This Colorado Republican Illustrates Why Her Party Lost the Black Vote

Can you imagine having the presumption to claim that you, a white lawmaker, should be...

January 29, 2019

Homeschooling for the Twenty-First Century — or the Nineteenth?

I was homeschooled. My parents talked about public schools educating kids for a factory-based economy...

January 28, 2019

I Learned Latin and Memorized Old Poems–and I Wish I Hadn’t

I was homeschooled, and I remember this exactly. We thought we were special because we...

January 22, 2019

Mike Pence: MLKJ Said Democrats Need to Build the Wall

I have gotten to the point where I almost dread Martin Luther King Jr. Day...

January 21, 2019

Homeschool Grads and Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Several recent conversations have turned my mind to the January of my first year of...

January 14, 2019

Why We Need the Humanities in the Sciences

The fault lines have been evident for some time---think of the problems over censorship, hate...

January 07, 2019

Republicans: From “Tear Down This Wall” to “Build That Wall”

In the United States, conservative politics learned heavily on anti-Communism. The political Right, in other...

December 2018

December 12, 2018

The Annotated “Slave Bible” and Slave-Initiated Bible-Based Resistance

The Bible in the hands of white man was well and good. The Bible in...

December 06, 2018

Ross Douthat Mourns the Decline of White (Anglo-Saxon Protestant) Supremacy

Yesterday, Ross Douthat published an opinion piece in the New York Times titled Why We...

October 2018

October 04, 2018

Trump’s George Washington Comments Were Worse Than You Think

What makes this perhaps more odd is Trump's insistence that surely---surely---there must have been accusations...

August 2018

August 07, 2018

John Adams’ Response to Abigail Adams’ “Remember the Ladies” Letter Was Horrifying — and Familiar

John and Abigail Adams' letters feel incredibly real. They don't feel outdated. They feel almost...