Lessons From Past Migrations
International migration is one of the most pervasive social phenomena of our times. According to recent UN estimates, as of 2017, there were almost 260 million migrants around the world. In the last five decades, the number of foreign born individuals living in the...
Our Free Speech Crisis
The First Amendment to our Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention during its narrow 89 to 79 vote to ratify the Constitution. Virginia’s resolution held that the free exercise of religion, right to assembly and free speech could...
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ILLINOIS: Band with ‘Confederate’ in Name Dumped From Festival; Protests Planned CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois is at the center of a national conversation about the First Amendment after the country rock band Confederate Railroad was removed from...
The South’s Strangest Fourth of July
It began like many other Fourth of July celebrations Charleston held in the decades after the United States won its independence. At 3 a.m., the traditional sound of cannon fire erupted from Citadel Green (what today is Marion Square). Members of voluntary militias...
Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World?
“The liberal idea has become obsolete. … (Liberals) cannot simply dictate anything to anyone as they have been attempting to do over the recent decades.” Such was the confident claim of Vladimir Putin to the Financial Times on the eve of a G-20...Obiter Dicta
This is the Trump era, which means if you blink, you will miss another shattering example of unabashed corruption. I Read More
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Southern, midsized cities lead population gains between 2024 and 2025 Large, immigrant-rich cities saw population fall back between mid-2024 and mid-2025 after nation-leading increases the year before. Mid-sized cities led Read More