A flowerpot of ashes from the fire of liberty…tokens of hope and truth preserved for future generations who dare to believe that there was once something else.

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A few random posts…

  • “Implication Vector” in historical narrative
    Historical reasoning needs to deal with the direction of the "implication vector" - does a fact about America in 1776 tell us more about 1776 or about America?
  • Fundamentals (Anti-Marxism)
    What's wrong with Marxism anyway? Defining our terms, and examining when it is limited, when it is wrong, and when it is evil.
  • Bad History: Original Zinn
    Howard Zinn's one-sided polemic version of U.S. history has become inexplicably influential in the teaching of U.S. history. Don't let this happen again!
  • Exposition (Anti-postmodernism)
    A modest expansion of the earlier discussion of the nature of postmodernism, based on Pluckrose and Lindsay's "two principles and four themes" outline.
  • 10 vs 14
    10th and 14th Amendments, in tension with each other, define intergovernmental relationships in the US. In ver. 2, this must be both clear and correct.