U.S. folks out there, make sure you go and vote. Otherwise, the alien bagel lizards win.
Tag Archives: United States
Truths
The history of the United States has been the long, painful process of copy-editing a couple of documents to add: “Also applies to: women, poor people, and brown people.”
Immigration
Out of frame to the left: Native American facepalming.
Interpretation
The US constitution is a tangle of grand Enlightenment ideals and messy post-monarchic politics. American history is, in some senses, the long and painful process of rescuing the ideals from the politics.
AP
Of all states, you’d think Oklahoma would be conscious of the fact that US history is complicated and “American exceptionalism” is at best a problematic claim. If only those state legislators had had better US history classes in high school.
