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This new blood libel isn’t really about race and apartheid, it’s simply the slur-du-jour.

By James W. Carden* By James W. Carden* Isolationism’s close association with interwar figures such as Charles Lindbergh and Joseph P. Kennedy has long given it a bad name – and not without reason. Yet, 80 years on from the founding of the America First Committee, it is time to reconsider the policy in light…

A True patriotism, especially of the American variety, comes from questioning the history you were born into. As July 4 came, we should all keep this in mind as we question some of the fundamentals of the American story — and we should ask ourselves not whether these reconsiderations are justified, but why there aren’t more of them. Revisionist history serves many useful purposes, and for the most part it should be encouraged — even though many particular revisionist claims turn out to be wrong. The natural human state of affairs is a kind of complacency and acceptance of the statu...

Joan Ventura Brugulat En Joan Ribas, en Ribas per antonomàsia, caminava per la ciutat amb un posat adust, potser sorrut. A vegades el saludaves i ni et veia, i altres vegades contestava tot arrancant un principi de somriure, aquell riure murri que també el caracteritzava. Aquests dies amics i coneguts ja han descrit les seves virtuts, moltes més de les que el seu posat reservat i discret deixaven entreveure. La Girona dels darrers seixanta anys no s’entendria sense el paper determinant d’aquest activista irreductible ja fos a RÃ...

On 25 May 2020, a man died after a “medical incident during police interaction” in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The man was suspected of forgery and “believed to be in his 40s”. He “physically resisted officers” and, after being handcuffed, “appeared to be suffering medical distress”. He was taken to the hospital “where he died a short time later”. It is not difficult to imagine a version of reality where this, the first police account of George...