The New York Times recently published a profile of Saul Chandler, a seventy-year old man who now spends most of his time on a boat docked at City Island, a small sliver of land off the east coast of the Bronx. Apparently, he’s a bit of a local legend on an island perhaps that has […]
Why He Did It
The authorities and the media sometimes seem more annoyed and frustrated at Stephen Paddock because they can’t figure out why he did it than they are about him killing 58 people and wounding hundreds. More precisely, they are annoyed and frustrated because they can’t come up with a story about why he did it that […]
Abolitionism: a Study Guide
By John Garvey and Noel Ignatiev (This was first posted at hardcrackers.com). We think it would be useful to study American abolitionism as a home-grown radical movement launched in inauspicious times. To further that end, we have prepared a reading list and a set of questions.[1] For hard-to-find works, we can help with copying and scanning. […]
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