How Slavery and Inequality Created a Disaster
Behind the News
Occupation, Resistance, and History in Malheur
The Bundys should learn from the example of Sarah Winnemucca.
On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Marshall Mission to China
No one in America “lost” China, because it wasn’t America’s to lose.
Close the Gate? Refugees, Radicals, and the Red Scare of 1919
This was no time for legal hairsplitting. If radicalism meant insecurity, and immigration meant radicalism, the government’s course was clear.
Better Anonymous Than Invisible?
Recent attacks on the KKK echo similar attempts from the 1920s. But they may have done more harm than good.
The Process of Disenfranchisement
The Supreme Court and southern state governments disenfranchised African Americans after the Civil War. It seems we’re on a similar road again.
Why We Should Still Care About Prosecuting Nazi Criminals
Why punish Holocaust perpetrators seventy years later?
Cornerstone of the Confederacy: Slavery and the Constitution
For Europeans, it was Confederate slaveholders who defined the U.S. Constitution as anti-slavery.
Liberty vs Property: Slavery and the Constitution
The Supreme Court struggled to untangle the status of a “cargo” of Africans captured at sea a decade after the US outlawed the slave trade.
Three-Fifths: Slavery and the Constitution
The reality of James Madison’s involvement in slavery is clear; the constitutional framer was no antislavery hero.