First, the Guardian makes it clear that a conspiracy is real: …groups involved in banning books are in fact linked, and backed by influential conservative donors. Second, a racist motive is obvious: In Pennsylvania, the Central York school board banned a long list of books, almost entirely titles by, or about, people of color, including … Continue reading Billionaires Fund Campaigns to Ban Books in American School
The WarZone has a back-and-forth analysis of a second raid on Pearl Harbor, by long-range “flying boat” bombers from Japan, that leaves the reader (or maybe it’s just me) scratching their head. They had been able to intercept and read U.S. weather reports that would have helped find a window with clear weather over Pearl … Continue reading Japanese attack after Pearl Harbor was thrown off by change to American code
From the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) comes this citation of historian Leonard Levy from his book Emergence of a Free Press (1985) …the persistent notion of Colonial America as a society where freedom of expression was cherished is an hallucination which ignores history. […] The American people simply did not … Continue reading Colonial Americans Did Not Believe in Freedom of Expression
Early in my political science studies at Macalester college I remember vividly my professor arguing America promotes football because it legitimizes displacing human rights by celebrating machine-like boxes of industrialized (minimal judgment/power) behaviors… a memory I’ve hinted at before on this blog in 2007. Instead of continuous movement of humans free to learn and achieve … Continue reading What is So American About American Football?