Geography of hate: the places of racism in American history. [With Geolocations]
The legacy of racism is everywhere in American history, from marble mansions to ordinary streetcorners. We must reckon with it.
Brave New World, the new cinema of the 2010s [Part II]: big movies, small stories.
The second installment of my analysis of "Brave New World" of 2010s cinema involves examples spanning the globe from the U.S., England, Ireland and Russia.
Those guys I used to know: watching friends slide toward the alt-right.
I've now lost too many friends and acquaintances to a creeping moral darkness that is hard to fathom. This is the reality of the world we live in.
Twitter, Alex Jones, and the continued brokenness of our public discourse. (UPDATED!)
Most Internet platforms understand that Jones is a purveyor of hate speech. Twitter, however, doesn't seem to get it.
Concentration camps at the border: a moral stain that will taint America forever.
The horrific border policy of tearing apart families and imprisoning innocent children is nothing less than a crime against humanity.
“And you call yourself a historian?”: the misunderstanding and contempt for professional history.
I require no lectures from purveyors of pseudohistory and other nonsense on the standards of the historical profession.
A bird out of hand: why Twitter is fundamentally and fatally broken. (UPDATED!)
Hint: it has to do with Nazis, Russian bots and Donald Trump.
Charlottesville: I can’t be silent. None of us can.
The last few days have made it very difficult to feel pride at being an American. The violence and hatred at a racist rally in [...]
“Bootsey’s Birthday”: Another story from America’s dystopian future.
The second short story from a troubled near-future America shows another dark side of the implications of authoritarianism.
The Crusades are over: stop trying to weaponize history.
Misguided people who try to use medieval history to advance modern ideologies are missing the point--and are seriously damaging our understanding of the past.