Moreover, this whole issue has been raised to a completely new level since the publication of historian Stanley Elkins’s path-breaking book Slavery. Elkins not only drew an elaborate comparison of the...
Katznelson shows how the Nazis were aware of, and excited about, bigotry across the Atlantic that they believed paralleled and reinforced their own bigotry. Even so, notice how just as Whitman blames...
It may seem heretical to link the three great progressive champions of the twentieth century—Wilson, FDR, and Johnson—with racism. But the indisputable fact is that all three were either racist themse...
Horwitt describes an occasion in the spring of 1972 when Alinsky organized a student protest at Tulane University’s annual lecture week. A group of anti–Vietnam War protesters wanted to disrupt a sche...
For example, political scientist Manning Marable said of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Ethnically, Thomas has ceased to be an African American. Columnist Carl Rowan of the Washin...
All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can’t see.1 —Gang leader Chotta Shakeel, in Suketu Mehta, Maximum City
A RACIAL CASTE SYSTEM Here we see beautifully enumerated the social and psychological benefits that poor whites derived from white supremacy. White supremacy created a racial caste system in which the...
I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.
Yet an IDB auditor, Mariela Antiga, complained that the contracts were padded with excessive costs to build roads no one needed. Antiga also alleged that IDB funds were going to a construction project...
When you fuse the two ideas of nation and socialism, what you get is National Socialism.
We think of concepts like genocide and concentration camps as unique to Nazism, but what term other than genocide can we use to describe Democratic president Andrew Jackson’s mass relocation of the In...
This is a white man’s country—let the white man rule. —Official Democratic Party slogan, 1868 presidential campaign
The roots of the Clinton Foundation can be found in the land-stealing policies of Andrew Jackson.
The roots of fascism fully expose the connection between fascism and America’s political Left, and the antithesis between fascism and America’s political Right.
The earliest opponents of slavery in America were Christians, mostly Quakers and evangelical Christians. They took seriously the biblical idea that we are all equal in the eyes of God, and interpreted...
The central issue, therefore, is which is the party of racism and which is the party of civil rights? This question cannot be answered simply by invoking the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 196...
So the Democratic defense went like this: all men are created equal, blacks are subhuman, which is to say, not fully men, therefore, we are justified in enslaving them.
Similarly, when Lincoln insisted the Civil War was about the union, not about slavery, this is understood by competent historians to reflect Lincoln’s determination to keep border states—Maryland, Del...
Second, America is drowning in debt. While China is the world’s largest creditor nation, America is the world’s largest debtor nation. At $17 trillion, the national debt is now bigger than the annual...
Recall that this is the first time that America truly had a generation gap, a chasm between parents and children. In previous generations, children wanted to be like their parents. They wanted, as qui...