Sublime

The increasing specialization of history has tended to decrease the intelligibility of history and thus forfeit the benefit to the community—even

C’est précisément cette dimension temporelle de la démocratie que Hofstadter, et avec lui la plupart des antipopulistes passés et présents, rejettent. Pour l’historien américain, l’histoire est pour l’essentiel faite par des forces – économiques, culturelles, sociales – qui dépassent de très loin la capacité des collectivités à influer sur son cour

There’s another way to understand Just America, like the other three narratives, and that’s in terms of class. Why does so much of its work take place in human resources departments, reading lists, and awards ceremonies? In the summer of 2020 the protesters in the streets of New York were disproportionately white millennials with advanced degrees m

Society recovers only a tenth part of the property then. Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?

Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named, feroci

Harpers.

The founders speak of three rights: the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The source for this phrase was John Locke, a British philosopher who spoke of “the right to life, liberty, and property.”

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