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june 12th

I Nominate June 12 to be International Struggle Day

June 12, 1942 – Anne Frank gets a diary for her birthday.  June 12, 1963 – Medgar Evers pays the last full measure of devotion. June 12, 1964 – Nelson […]

June 12, 2022June 14, 2022 Christian Coleman Articles

The Logistical Failure of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Infantry wins battles. Logistics wins wars.

April 25, 2022April 27, 2022 Slate Whitmore Essays

The Four Best Slaveowners

So, what’s my point? Tear down the statues of these men, scrape their names off every building in America, and damn their memories?

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 Christian Coleman Lists, Ranking

America Is Frozen in the Cold War

An aggressive petrostate attacking its neighbors does not become America’s “biggest geopolitical threat” just because it’s in Europe. That’s Cold War nostalgia.

February 28, 2022February 28, 2022 Christian Coleman Essays

Presidents Day 2022: The Dumbest Thing Every President Has Done, Vol. 3

Happy Presidents Day 2022. Are y’all ready for more presidential gaffes, blunders, and general stupidity?

February 21, 2022February 22, 2022 Colter Longshore Lists, Ranking

We Used to Have Two Moons

Put your tin foil hats on. What if I were to tell you the earth had not one but two moons once upon a time over a hundred years ago?

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Christian Coleman Articles

Boomers Have a Stranglehold on America

Boomers saw America through Vietnam, political violence, stagflation, the Iran hostage crisis, the Cold War, and 9/11. It’s time to hang up the jersey.

January 28, 2022February 1, 2022 Christian Coleman Essays

MLK Is Not Your Magical Negro

In the Kingist myth, MLK was a superhuman; this is more damaging than it sounds.

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Christian Coleman Essays

Senators Used to Be Giants. Now They’re Trolls

Senators don’t wear togas anymore. They don’t glide towards the forum clutching six yards of white fabric rimmed in blood-red, but they are inheritors of the Roman legacy. They still […]

January 8, 2022January 11, 2022 Christian Coleman Essays
democrats and republicans

Democrats and Republicans Didn’t Switch Positions on Race

In conventional wisdom, it’s cute and common to say that Democrats and Republicans have switched positions on race. The conventional cuteness says that Democrats were racists until the early 70s […]

December 18, 2021December 21, 2021 Christian Coleman Essays

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