Boiling a Frog: The Death of Democracy by Degrees
On this day eighty years ago, with no possibility of escape, and death in a Nazi concentration...
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Category: Commentary
We Are Long Past the Godwin Point: A Nazi Is a Nazi
It is always a tricky business comparing events in contemporary America to Nazi Germany. It can...
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Hey Dumbass! You’re a Dumbass!
I have lost about twenty people from my social media followers over the past month, but that’s...
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Jewish Is Not a Race: The Passing of Jessica Krug
If you know one thing about Jessica Krug, it is that she is a white woman who passed herself off...
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Traces of the Past: Renovation of the Old Church of Vilanova de la Barca by AleaOlea
Vilanova de la Barca is a small town located on the eastern bank of the Segre River, near the...
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Canada’s Monument Moment: Confronting the Legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald
A monument honoring Canada’s first prime minister in Montreal’s Place du Canada has long been a...
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America: The Failed Experiment
In the churches that I grew up in, the news channels that I watched, and the textbooks from my...
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Hunting Season
This image will surely be an indelible icon of our historical moment: A white teenager strolls...
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Mental Health in a Pandemic
I know it is not professional to admit that you’re drinking while writing but. given what I’m...
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Should we vote for Biden? Yes. Should we be happy about it? No
Throughout the primary, I argued with everyone from my editor here at The Typescript to my best...
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Read This To the End: An Essay on Politics
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate landed in...
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Black Lives and Capitalism
One of the more intense arguments I had with anti-Black Lives Matter people in Idaho was over the...
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The Politics of Architecture
Why is supposedly “advanced” architecture appreciated by so many of today’s dictatorial rulers,...
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Today’s Class: Thinking Critically About Sources
I love Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, but I think I am ready to dump all those platforms. My...
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Facebook’s Community Double-Standards
Facebook community standard policies are both infuriating and confusing. Back in my days as a...
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It’s Now or Never
The whole world is grinding to a halt right now in what is surely the biggest crisis in several...
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The United States of Memes
I am a millennial and I love a good meme as much as the next person. I even use them occasionally...
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When Words Mean Violence: Nick Cannon and Antisemitic Libel
Comedian and celebrity television host Nick Cannon interviewed Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin...
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The E-mask-ulation of the American Male
For the past two months, I have been conducting research on the effects of the COVID-19 shutdown...
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Washington NFL Team’s Name Change is Long Overdue
Earlier this month, the world started to come apart for the Washington NFL franchise and its owner...
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