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Jim Zwick’s boondocksnet.com website is a crucial source for materials on the Philippine-American War, contemporary responses to Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden,” and Mark Twain’s anti-imperialist writings. . * The Nobel committee was, however, mainly impressed by Kipling’s..

is the u.s. in a pre-fascist period?

Among the most violent recent engagements between “white nationalists” and “antifa” – anti-fascist — militants took place in Charlottesville, VA, and other showdowns have erupted in Washington, DC; Berkeley, CA; and Newnan, GA (southwest of Atlanta).  ..

the changing american population, 1610-2010

The increase of the Hispanic population beyond that of the Black population after 2000, along with the corresponding drop in the fractional White population, has fueled the racial tensions expressed today as the Trump Administration: widespread Black resentment of Latinos (“Mexicans”), and the overt..

religion in public life

The public is now divided on the question of whether churches and other houses of worship should express their views on day-to-day social and political questions 49% say they should do this, while 48% say churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters. ..

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