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A Letter to Italian Americans Voting for Trump
I will teach my son that we have a responsibility to treat others how our ancestors should have been treated. Introduction On March 16, 1891, in New Orleans, Louisiana, 11 Italian immigrants were lynched by an angry mob. The mob believed that the men were responsible for the murder of New Orleans Police Chief David…
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Conspiracism and Conservatism
Preface: The original version of this post was published by Flux on March 3, 2021. It has been slightly modified from the original version. Disinformation and conspiracy theories have always been around. What’s different now is that American conservatism has rebuilt itself on rejecting reality. In 1835, the New York Sun published what is believed to be the first…