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Christianity
The Moot (Oldham's Moot, 1938-1947)
Christopher Dawson
JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit (1937 book)
Lord of the Rings (1954 LotR)
People LotR Influenced
Jamelle Bouie
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Jamelle Bouie
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1210 Demos/Prospect Evening
People LotR Influenced
The American Prospect (TAP 1990)
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‘Nobody Trusts Anybody Now, and We’re All Very Tired’
‘Stop the Steal’ Didn’t Start With Trump
‘This Is Jim Crow in New Clothes’
“Nothing but Slumlords:” Jared Kushner’s life as a predatory capitalist.
@jbouie
A Simple Theory of Why Trump Did Well
America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.
America’s Rifle Fetish Is Destroying Its Sense of Freedom (xlnt)
Bernie Sanders’ scorched-earth run against Hillary Clinton is a mistake.
Blackface Is the Tip of the Iceberg
Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
Clarence Thomas Is as Free as Ever to Treat His Seat Like a Winning Lottery Ticket
Clarence Thomas Should Not Get Away With It
Elizabeth Warren Knows What Joe Biden Needs in a Vice President
Ginni Thomas Is No Outlier
Grant’s First Tomb (xlnt)
Harlan Crow Is Not a Nazi, but That’s Beside the Point
If ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Is a Cautionary Tale, It Was Lost on JD Vance
If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It?
Jamelle Bouie
John Lewis Was the Anti-Trump
Justice Alito Is a True Believer
Kenosha Tells Us More About Where the Right Is Headed Than the R.N.C. Did
Liberty and Slavery Have Always Been Wrapped Up With Each Other (xlnt)
Manchin and Sinema Have Their History Wrong
Maybe This Isn’t Such a Good Time to Prosecute a Culture War
Next Time Trump Tries to Steal an Election, He Won’t Need a Mob
One Old Way of Keeping Black People From Voting Still Works
Republican Senators Play the QAnon Game
So You Lost the Election. We Had Nothing to Do With It.
Stephen Miller’s Sinister Syllabus
Sure, Now Ted Cruz and Kevin McCarthy Want ‘Unity’
The ‘Trump Won’ Farce Isn’t Funny Anymore
The Apotheosis of Jim Jordan Is a Sight to Behold
The Backlash Against C.R.T. Shows That Republicans are Losing Ground
The Border War in Portland
The Boy Who Cried Fake News
The Case for Bernie Sanders
The Civil War That Never Ended
The Conspiracist in Chief Will Save Us All (xlnt)
The Irony in the ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’
The Lure of Impeachment
The March of White Supremacy, From Oklahoma City to Christchurch
The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.
The Problem With This Conspiracy Theory Is Reality
The Real Reason Trump Never Stops Talking About Voter Fraud
The Republican Embrace of Vigilantism Is No Accident
The Trouble With Biden
The Trump Conspiracy Is Hiding in Plain Sight
The Trump Strain in American History
The World Lost a Great Philosopher This Week
There is no such thing as a good Trump voter. (yikes!)
There’s a Reason Trump Could Try to Overturn the Results of the 2020 Election
This Is Why It Took More Than 100 Years to Get an Anti-Lynching Bill (xlnt)
This Is Why Republicans Fear Change
To Overturn Trump, We Need to Overturn White Supremacy
Trump Did Nothing to Stop the Mob
Trump Is Following in Herbert Hoover’s Footsteps
Trump’s Revenge (2026)
Tucker Carlson Has a New Hero
Two Articles of Impeachment for Trump Are Nowhere Near Enough
Undistorting the Civil War
We Need to Be Clear About Who Pushed Us to the Breaking Point
We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was
What Democrats Can Learn About Impeachment From the Civil War
What Democrats Should Do Now That They Have Turned Virginia Blue
What the Republican Push for ‘Parents’ Rights’ Is Really About
When Politicians Invoke the Founding Fathers, Remember This
Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires
Why Andrew Yang’s New Third Party Is Bound to Fail
Why did some white Obama voters for Trump?
Why Must We Go About Our Lives With an Eye on the Nearest Exit?
Why Trump Always Wants a Crisis