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Jul 4 • Barrett Holmes Pitner
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How the Fugitive Slave Act Helps Explain ICE's Terrorism Today
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The Crisis of Defining White Culture
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A Civilization Without Empathy
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A Dialogue with Claude AI That Reconstructs Western Philosophy
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Freedom-With: We’ve Been Doing Freedom Wrong for Nearly 250 Years
It is time to finally practice freedom the right way
Jul 1 • Barrett Holmes Pitner
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 • Barrett Holmes Pitner
The Crisis of Defining White Culture
Jeremy Carl's struggle to define white culture is actually what allows white culture to survive.
Feb 20 • Barrett Holmes Pitner
Benito Bowl 2026: A 500-Year-Old Wake-Up Call
The sound of ancestral memory on the world's biggest stage
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How to Understand and Defeat American Fascism
Our Society Mistakenly Focuses on the Symptoms and Not the Causes of Fascism
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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.
Feb 19, 2024 • Jamie Redmond
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