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A Dialogue with Claude AI That Reconstructs Western Philosophy
The other day I had a profound and surprisingly emotional conversation with Claude that might completely upend our understanding of western philosophy…
Apr 30
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How the Fugitive Slave Act Helps Explain ICE's Terrorism Today
Jan 26
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The Crisis of Defining White Culture
Feb 20
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A Civilization Without Empathy
Mar 10, 2025
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Re-Entering the Age of American Regression
Feb 5, 2025
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The Crisis of Defining White Culture
Jeremy Carl's struggle to define white culture is actually what allows white culture to survive.
Feb 20
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Benito Bowl 2026: A 500-Year-Old Wake-Up Call
The sound of ancestral memory on the world's biggest stage
Feb 12
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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
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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
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The American Leviathan: Nasty, Brutish, and (Hopefully) Short
Trump’s Morality Emphasizes Power, Chaos, Incivility, and the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Jan 16
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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
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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
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Noah Woods
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The Fifteenth Amendment Personified
As Mississippi's first Black Senator, Hiram Revels represented the new freedoms of Reconstruction.
Feb 19, 2024
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