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The State of American Democracy Webinar
A virtual Engage at the Bush Center, presented by NexPoint conversation In this Winter 2024 edition of The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute, our contributors look at the current condition of American democracy. This virtual conversation will focus on how the United States has reached this point.
Protecting those who protect us
Disinformation is one of the greatest threats now facing U.S. democracy. The ability of U.S. citizens to accurately perceive reality – along with their commitment to the rules-based order established by the Constitution – is being steadily undermined by this increasingly dangerous phenomenon. Not only is the spread of false information inherently harmful, but disinformation is also breeding a type of radicalization that all too often devolves into violent extremism.
Interracial Marriage Under Attack: Thinking the Unthinkable
During an interview with reporters last week, Indiana Senator Mike Braun went beyond the usual Republican line that decisions about abortion rights should be left up to the states. The question of interracial marriage, too, he said, should be left to the states to decide. Braun was responding to a reporter who seemed to be testing how far he would take his states’ rights philosophy: If the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v.
Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories
The Shortlist Feb. 9, 2021 ROBERT E. LEE AND ME A Southerner’s Reckoning With the Myth of the Lost Cause By Ty Seidule 291 pp. St. Martin’s. $27.99. Long before the alt-right circled the statue of the Confederate general Robert E.
On California's Eugenicist Past
Like many wartime couples, Andrea Perez and Sylvester S. Davis Jr. met on the job. In their case it happened in 1941, on the factory floor of Lockheed Aviation’s Burbank facility. A second-generation Californian, Sylvester Davis traced his family’s roots, and its Catholic religion, to Louisiana. Raised in the multiethnic Central Avenue district of Los Angeles, Davis attended racially mixed Catholic schools and worshipped at the racially mixed St. Patrick’s Church.
WHITE FRIGHT | Kirkus Reviews
The powerful story of a father’s past and a son’s future. Atlantic senior writer Coates (The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, 2008) offers this eloquent memoir as a letter to his teenage son, bearing witness to his own experiences and conveying passionate hopes for his son’s life. “I am wounded,” he writes.
What Joe Biden Got Out of Anti-Busing Politics
Lately, former vice president Joe Biden has encountered sharp criticism for his nostalgia over his early days in the Senate. Praising the collegiality of the 1970s, when liberals like Biden and Ted Kennedy could cooperate with white supremacists like Mississippi senator James Eastland, Biden chastised current politicians for their ideological purity and rigidity. “We got things done” then, he proclaimed of those bygone days at a recent fundraiser.
What Joe Biden Got Out of Anti-Busing Politics
Jane Dailey, professor of history at the University of Chicago, on Joe Biden’s efforts to restrict federal support of school desegregation, and the white opposition to "busing." Lately, former vice president Joe Biden has encountered sharp criticism for his nostalgia over his early days in the Senate.
Safe spaces in dangerous places
In a move of breathtaking hypocrisy, conservative critics of higher education, who have in the past monitored and denounced so-called radical professors for exposing their students to subversive ideas such as feminism, gay rights, and racial equality, have suddenly recast themselves as stalwart defenders of free speech on campus.
Baltimore’s Confederate Monument Was Never About ‘History and Culture’ | Afro
Americans have probably had about enough of Confederate monuments this week, but the dual equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson whisked away from its pedestal Wednesday morning in Baltimore is worth examining, especially in light of President Trump’s continued fixation on the issue. The vast majority of Confederate monuments were erected after the turn of the twentieth century.
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