Slavery Abolition

Math, apparently, remains hard. Except, perhaps, calculus of a political sort. On its face, Health Minister Tyler Shandro's claim that firing 11,000 low-paid public sector health-care employees will save about $600 million makes little sense. Others have done the same calculation and come up with similar results, but it is…

Detail of a portrait of John C. Calhoun by George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894) (Wikimedia Commons) Calhoun was a Hegelian Jacobin who spent his life trafficking in post-hoc rationalizations for slavery. Conservatives must reject his example. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n my last piece, I alluded to an article by…

Publishedduration22 hours agoimage captionDr Starkey said he had made "a serious error for which I have already paid a significant price"Historian Dr David Starkey has said he is being investigated by police over an interview in which he made controversial comments about slavery.Dr Starkey made the remarks on YouTube to…

The death of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has sent the already fraught politics of Supreme Court confirmation into crisis. But the panic that followed the news of Ginsburg’s death, given the heightened stakes of the 2020 election, has served one useful purpose: It’s made it clearer than ever…

On Monday, “The Daily Show” took a special look at the holiday honoring Christopher Columbus, and suggested replacing it with one celebrating an Italian-American who is nothing like the man who began the Native American genocide: Dr. Anthony Fauci. Columbus Day, celebrated every Oct. 12 since 1934, was established to…

Anti-colonization demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, pulled down statues of the late Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt ahead of the Columbus Day federal holiday, per the Oregonian.Driving the news: Sunday night's action that also saw Oregon Historical Society's building vandalized was part of a movement that organizers called, "Indigenous Peoples…

A protester stands over a toppled statue of President Theodore Roosevelt in Portland, Oregon. Photo: AFP ‘Put these animals in jail, now’ … ‘This is Biden! Law & Order!’ said Trump in a series of tweets Three arrested as hundreds of protesters gathered in the city of Portland for ‘Indigenous…

Protesters in Portland, Oregon, pulled down statues of former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and broke windows late Sunday amid a demonstration on what organizers called an “Indigenous Day of Rage,” NBC local affiliate KGW reported.Monday is the federal holiday Columbus Day, which some cities and states have renamed…

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Pelosi sounds warning on UK approval of Covid vaccine Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, has criticised the UK’s vaccine testing safety regime, declaring that London’s approval of a vaccine would not automatically mean it was safe according to the US’s own procedures. The Guardian says Pelosi’s…