The Tyranny Of The Majority
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or three thousand tyrants one mile away?” — Rev. Mather Blyes (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature?...
Where America First Went Wrong on Civil War Monuments
Charlottesville, Virginia, has finally received the green light to remove our spurned Confederate statues. After enduring years of legal delay and violent white supremacist attacks, on April 1 the Supreme Court of Virginia decided in favor of the city’s effort to rid...
For What Should We Fight Russia Or China?
Last Monday, in a single six-hour period, NATO launched 10 air intercepts to shadow six separate groups of Russian bombers and fighters over the Arctic, North Atlantic, North Sea, Black Sea and Baltic Sea. Last week also brought reports that Moscow is increasing its...
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FLORIDA: Bayonet Discovered ByJacksonville Gardener May Be Connected To Grant’s March In 1861 A bayonet discovered by a Jacksonville man tilling his garden may have a connection to Grant’s March, the July 1861 journey that took then-Col. Ulysses S. Grant...
At William & Mary, renaming efforts are part of nation’s struggle with its slaveholding past
The College of William & Mary’s historic campus — with all the complicated legacies it entails — serves as a microcosm of a larger national reckoning about when and how to leave behind symbols associated with the country’s history of racism and slaveholding. The...Obiter Dicta
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