*Editor’s Note: University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned from his position at around the same time this article was posted* ——————– Today, it could well be argued that no single sport has perfected the art of athletic spectacle to… Read More ›
Amidst the vast cacophony of moronic prattle being peddled by a surfeit of GOP presidential candidates, former Florida governor and Super PAC money pit Jeb Bush managed to snag a share of the spotlight for at least one news cycle… Read More ›
In 1894, America was in the midst of what was then the largest depression in its young history. Amidst all of the Sturm und Drang of the Second Industrial Revolution, the railroad industry had overextended itself and a flood of… Read More ›
Time has a way of softening terminology, especially with regards to things we’d rather not think about and don’t entirely understand. During World War I, a British physician named Charles Samuel Myers wrote an article in The Lancet, using the… Read More ›
A year before he was to make his first of five runs for The White House under the banner of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, Eugene V. Debs penned an article for the International Socialist Review titled, “The… Read More ›
I have lived close to 29 years on this earth and, as of yet, I have not been able to find anything that inspires me with as much natural awe and unbridled enthusiasm today as the long walk to Riverfront… Read More ›
Head over to Bernie Sanders’s campaign website and you will find the unbridled economic populism of the first self-proclaimed socialist this side of Eugene V. Debs to have a legitimate shot at making waves in a presidential election. In his, “On… Read More ›
From a physical standpoint, Alexander Stephens made a rather ironic spokesman for the superiority of the white race. Standing 5 feet 7 inches in height, Stephens wasn’t terribly short or tall by 19th century American standards, but he possessed a… Read More ›
Nearly a century after his death, the glowering visage of “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman still looks down upon the people of South Carolina from its perch outside the State House in Charleston. 8 feet tall and made of bronze that has… Read More ›
It has never been properly explained to me why we still celebrate Columbus Day as a national holiday. What is it exactly are we supposed to be celebrating? The fact that some gold-crazed Italian convinced the Queen of Spain to… Read More ›
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