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Sitting on my desk is a ship in a bottle my father gave me, made by Bill Donovan. When I look at the tiny masts, their delicate rigging, above the blue painted waves, I’m reminded how the precise qualities of an operator used to be measured. And …
In 1959, Charles Mingus boldly wrote a song that spoke truth to power. “Fables of Faubus” called out Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus directly. The sitting governor had ordered the National Guard to block nine Black teenagers from entering Li…
In 1937, the Soviet NKVD issued Order No. 00447, allowing them to arrest anyone, with quotas by region. Officers received two categories of targets: Category One for execution (i.e. Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Ruben Martinez) Category Two for Gulag impris…
Bush on Presidents Day criticizing authoritarian overreach is the arsonist complaining about fire codes. As America begins to celebrate our 250th anniversary, I’m pleased to have been asked to write about George Washington’s leadership. As president, I…
James C. Scott wrote about a concept of legibility in Seeing Like a State — the idea that centralized power first needs to make populations readable before it can act on them. There is a specific cycle by which legibility is achieved through volu…
Museum revises labelling on maps and panels, saying term used inaccurately and no longer historically neutralThe British Museum has removed the word “Palestine” from some of its displays, saying the term was used inaccurately and is no longer historica…
Not mentioned in this video is that Stanley in 2020 was careful to say Trumpism was fascist while specifying the U.S. didn’t have a genocidal regime. That changed in 2025, as he described America as an authoritarian state worth fleeing, drawing e…
Benjamin Wittes just published a historically illiterate piece in Lawfare about Judge Richard Leon’s ruling enjoining Defense Secretary Hegseth from retaliating against Senator Mark Kelly’s retirement pay. Kelly’s offense was none at …
A Bavarian toy company called Playmobil is selling blonde haired Greek gods to children through a charity, and nobody seems to find the Nazism origin story strange? Headquartered in Zirndorf the company launched its “History” line of Greek …
FTC Chairman Ferguson’s “warning letter” to Apple CEO Tim Cook on February 12, 2026, threatening enforcement action over Apple News allegedly boosting “left-wing sources,” is state coercion of editorial decisions. It follo…