“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
…The economic consequences of Trump’s tariffs will be bad enough, but the bigger problem is likely to be the political fallout. The words and actions… Read More »“Love your Enemies” Not quite what He meant.
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The role of Christian nationalism in the new administration was also evident in the exchange between Trump and the Bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde, at… Read More »Christian Nationalism
America First is best known as the slogan and foreign policy advocated by the America First Committee, a non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II,… Read More »America First = White Supremacy
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Political career Connecticut Board of Education McMahon was appointed to the Connecticut State Board of Education by Governor Jodi Rell in January 2009.[62][81] She went through a confirmation process… Read More »Linda McMahon
“There’s a guy named Daniel Rodriguez. On January 5th, 2021, he texted his friends ‘There will be blood.’ On January 6th, when he stormed the… Read More »Daniel Rodriguez
[ed. note: This same pattern that happened in 1850 is happening today, in local, state and federal governments, plus in libraries, school boards, universities, the… Read More »Taking Power
In the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and other colonies, Puritans set up new governments with the same source of power – religious authority. These governments claimed… Read More »Puritans in America