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Should Society Cheer for Rude People?

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As a historian and history teacher, I have looked at many old photographs and films. I often included these in my classes and marveled at how my students saw things in the photos that I overlooked. I especially remember showing some grainy film of a baseball game from about 1910. I wanted to illustrate how … Read more

A Symbolic Knife Attack Announces the Decapitation of the West

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Two bloody beheadings by Islamic militants in France shocked the world. The French government and the media are trying to frame the attacks as only the work of isolated fanatics exposed to radicalized Islam. Such an evaluation is a mistake. Something more ominous is contained in these ghastly deeds. The crimes sent a message that … Read more