“It is never too late to change the future”
In today’s installment of Letters from an American , Heather Cox Richardson reflects on the Wounded Knee Massacre.
One more commentary on the election
It’s by Rebecca Solnit: “Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do.”
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Words of the year, now with polarization.
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Words of the year Now with demure and kakistocracy .
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Words of the year Now with brain rot .
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Words of the year, now with enshittification.
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Words of the year, now with manifest.
Words of the year
From the Collins Dictionary, brat : inspired by Charli XCX and “characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude.”
Paul Berman on slogans
“Bad faith is when you don’t like the truth so you lie about it. Then you lie about having lied about it. You might even convince yourself that in lying about lying you’re not lying. That’s bad faith. It’s a twisted consciousness. We’re seeing a mass movement for a twisted consciousness.”
Nihilism in disguise
Aaron Rupar warns of nihilism masquerading as leftism.
Paying attention
From yesterday’s installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American .
MLK: diversity
MLK using the word in 1967, more than. year before the OED’s earliest citation.
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Another word of the year.
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Words of the year, now with a second “hallucinate” and a “vibe of the year.”
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Another word of the year.
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A word of the year from Merriam-Webster.
Being a liberal
Cass Sustein offers thirty-four statements to explain why he is a liberal.
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More words of the year.
Words of the year
From the Collins Dictionary, AI .
The Daily Tar Heel front page
Words from texts.
Clarence Thomas and Horatio Alger
The Alger success story is, really, a story of patronage. One might even call it a story of affirmative action, practiced not by institutions but by individuals.
HCR on SCOTUS
On more bad news.
HCR on SCOTUS
Heather Cox Richardson writes about yesterday’s Supreme Court decision.
Benjamin Ferencz (1920–2023)
The last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor.
“Ignorance pays off”
How can a hate group make money?
“Who’s Afraid of Black History?”
Henry Louis Gates Jr. draws a parallel between a supporter of the Lost Cause and Ron Desantis.
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“Woman”: another word of the year.
Words of the year
From the Collins Dictionary, permacrisis, “a term that describes ‘an extended period of instability and insecurity.’”
Two visions
From the latest installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American.
Juneteenth
There’s still no stamp. But there is a flag, designed by Ben Haith.