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How the Fugitive Slave Act Helps Explain ICE's Terrorism Today

Jan 26 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

A Civilization Without Empathy

Mar 10, 2025 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

Re-Entering the Age of American Regression

Feb 5, 2025 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

How Juneteenth Redefines Freedom

Jun 19, 2024 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

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How to Understand and Defeat American Fascism

Our Society Mistakenly Focuses on the Symptoms and Not the Causes of Fascism

Feb 9 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

How the Fugitive Slave Act Helps Explain ICE's Terrorism Today

By Knowing This History We Can Learn How to Respond to ICE's Terrorism by Reconstructing a Better America

Jan 26 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

The American Leviathan: Nasty, Brutish, and (Hopefully) Short

Trump’s Morality Emphasizes Power, Chaos, Incivility, and the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes

Jan 16 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

On January 6th, America is a Diseased Rogue State

Our Democracy has an Autoimmune Disorder, but it Need Not Destroy Itself

Jan 6 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

The Reconstructionist: An Interview with cylindr magazine

Philosopher and journalist Barrett Holmes Pitner on reimagining American culture.

Dec 16, 2025 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

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Reconstructionism & the Democracy to Come

When you receive our newsletters, you will see the phrase “the Democracy to Come” right below the banner.

Apr 2, 2024 • Barrett Holmes Pitner

Reconstructionism: Rediscovering the Philosophy of Reconstruction

In 1891, more than 25 years after the conclusion of the Civil War, Missouri Senator George Graham Vest, a former congressman for the Confederacy and…

Feb 19, 2024 • Noah Woods

The Fifteenth Amendment Personified

As Mississippi's first Black Senator, Hiram Revels represented the new freedoms of Reconstruction.

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