The New Republic
The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism
19+ min · · The critics of progressive identity politics have got it all wrong: They’re the illiberal ones. · Shared by 100, including Bjorn Larsen, Matt Zoller Seitz, erik spiekermann, Kate Manne, Kara Swisher, David Wallace-Wells, Justin Tiehen, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, LoriBeth, Jason Stanley, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Mathew Ingram
Rolling Stone
Rewriting Country Music's Racist History
11+ min · · Artists like Yola and Rhiannon Giddens are blowing up what Giddens calls a “manufactured image of country music being white and being poor” · Shared by 109, including Mathew Ingram, Alan Sepinwall, LoriBeth, Chris MacDonald, Scott Stratten
Mother Jones
Another Monument to White Supremacy That Should Come Down? The Electoral College
9 min · · A new book examines the racist history of how Americans pick presidents. · Shared by 20, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, LoriBeth, William Gibson, Mathew Ingram
The Guardian
‘Reject the lies of history’: Washington reckons with tributes to racist past
6 min · · The US capital is adorned with monuments to American history, but as schools change names and statues are toppled, legacies are under scrutiny · Shared by 43, including LoriBeth
The Guardian
Boris Johnson says we shouldn't edit our past. But Britain has been lying about it for decades
4 min · · If we really shouldn’t lie about our history, as the prime minister says, let’s finally open up about the atrocities of empire, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot · Shared by 72, including Matthias Lampe, Christian Surchi, Carl Morris, LoriBeth, George Monbiot
The New York Times
Statue of Leopold II, Belgian King Who Brutalized Congo, Is Removed in Antwerp
4 min · · The statue was targeted by recent protests against racism and Belgium’s colonial history. The authorities said the statue would remain in a museum. · Shared by 55, including Mo Ryan, Mohamed Amjahid, Azeem Azhar, John O'Farrell, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, LoriBeth
HistoryExtra
The Civil War Misconceptions That Fuel Tensions In The United States
13+ min · · US history tends to neglect the fact that the American Revolution was also a civil war – and that the American Civil War also encompassed a revolution. Adam IP Smith explains why ignoring difficult… · Shared by 6, including LoriBeth
The New York Times
In California, Hanging Deaths of Two Black Men Summon a Dark History and F.B.I. Scrutiny
7 min · · When two men were found hanging from trees in Southern California, authorities quickly ruled them suicides. After an outcry from activists, investigations were opened. · Shared by 8, including LoriBeth
Lawfare
The Shoddy History Behind a Key Precedent in the Flynn Case
8 min · · The Justice Argument argues that Rule 48(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure gives the judge in Michael Flynn’s little leeway in dismissing the case against him. New research shows that the… · Shared by 6, including LoriBeth
The Washington Post
Opinion | Why Trump’s rally in Tulsa will be remembered by history
· All the horror of this moment, encapsulated in one event. · Shared by 7, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, LoriBeth
histography.io
Histography - Timeline of History
· Histography is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015 · Shared by 288, including Josep M. Ganyet, ⛓ José Luis Núñez ⛓, Liv 😷, Diego, ross, samz, Jason Crawford, Minnix, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Ines Bieler, Mark Kaigwa, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Loubna Rais, bouiboui, Serge K. Keller ❦, Florian Hanke 🍎, Chini Ni, Dominik Grolimund, Katja Evertz, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
Tim Urban
Horizontal History
14+ min · · Looking at history from a new direction · Shared by 108, including Leo Polovets, Graham Marshall, Sara Usinger, Tauno, Dominik Grolimund, Edwin Reynoso, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina, Memi Beltrame, Vikram Dutt, Brian, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Josep M. Ganyet, Florian Hanke 🍎, Philippe, LoriBeth, Hassan
Foreign Policy
The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History
5 min · · It’s more glaring than Pearl Harbor and 9/11—and it’s all the fault of Donald Trump’s leadership. · Shared by 182, including Gerd Leonhard, Josep M. Ganyet, Kanyi Maqubela, Ron Howard, Mark Little, Thomas Power, LoriBeth, Joshua Benton, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Jay Rosen
Harvard Business Review
How History’s Great Leaders Managed Anxiety
9 min · · Historian Nancy Koehn on what Lincoln, Shackleton, and others knew about handling collective anxiety — and their own — during a crisis. · Shared by 193, including Klaus Eck, LoriBeth, Stephanie A Kowalski, Lukas Biewald, Antonio Vieira Santos, Kate Nasser
WIRED
The Secret History of a Cold War Mastermind
2 min · · Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he? · Shared by 270, including Backchannel, LoriBeth, Matthias Lampe
The School of Life
Are intelligent people more melancholic?
3 min · · Early on in the history of melancholy, the Greek philosopher Aristotle was said to have raised a question which it’s hard to answer without sounding self-serving – or smug: ‘Why is it that so many of… · Shared by 417, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Nicholas, LoriBeth, Jason Silva, Stephanie A Kowalski, Rich, Tauno, Katja Evertz