People we love: Raoul Wallenberg
Born on this day in 1912.
Category: history
August 4, 2012
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August 2, 2012
Lessons from the Market Revolution, Part I
The irony of History once again showed that, under capitalism, the equality of inferiors is made possible by the inequalities of the superior.
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August 1, 2012
The song we’d love to sing every day
The guy who wrote these words was born on this day in 1779.
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July 29, 2012
People we’d love to think were wrong: Alexis de Tocqueville
Born on this day in 1805.
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July 26, 2012
The Media has Found Another “Right-Wing Racist”
In Greece, amidst their financial and political woes known throughout the world, they have found time to expel a capable athlete from the Olympic games for a comment she made on Twitter. The remark being racist was enough for the original Olympiads to exclude Voula Papachristou from participation. But the AP didn’t stop there.
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July 19, 2012
An Intellectual History of Slavery, Part III
The Reformation (1517-1564); Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1535); Junius Brutus, Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos (1579)
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July 16, 2012
Frank Kameny: Not a Star but an Asteroid
Alex Knepper & Frank Kameny
Until last week, I had never known anyone who had had a planet named for him.
Now I have. The late Franklin Kameny, a Harvard-trained astronomer who became a civil-rights pioneer, now has a namesake planet — a mino…
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July 14, 2012
Song of the Day: This Land is Your Land
Woody Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912. One hundred years ago today.
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