Category: Print the Legend
The Klan Marches in Washington, D.C.
A Hundred Years Ago This Month A hundred years may seem like a long time, but in historical terms it isn’t. Just a century ago, in 1925, Washington, D.C. saw its first of two massive Ku Klux Klan rallies (the second was a year later). These weren’t hidden, nighttime gatherings in remote southern towns; these…
Celebrating Hank Aaron. For Real This Time.
This year’s MLB All-Star festivities are giving Hank Aaron the kind of recognition he always deserved. During the Home Run Derby, National League players will wear number 44, Aaron’s iconic number, while the American League will wear number 3 in honor of Babe Ruth. The tribute isn’t just symbolic—it’s poetic. The Derby falls on July…
“On the One Hand…”
The Perils and Possibilities of AI President Truman used to joke about how his economic advisors were always telling him, “on the one hand this… but on the other hand that.” What I need, he said, “is a one-handed economist.” It’s a good line. But he knew some issues are too complex, too uncertain, and…
Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down
Echoes from the Second World War It was the second-to-last episode of The Handmaid’s Tale that got me thinking about all this. June (Elisabeth Moss), bruised but unbroken, shouts to the crowd before she is about to be hanged from a crane: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down!” A line of defiance. A curse…
Haven’t We Done Enough For You People?
As part of the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, in which the Supreme Court stripped African Americans of the hard-fought rights guaranteed to them by the post-Civil War Amendments, Justice Joseph Bradley wrote in a majority opinion that favored (White) business interests over (Negro) human rights: When a man has emerged from slavery, and by…