by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 19, 2021 | Politics
ShareGoing back centuries, North Carolina has had a split personality regarding basic democratic principles. One side, embodied most vividly by the secessionists who followed other Southern states out of the union in protest against Abraham Lincoln’s election,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 18, 2021 | Politics
ShareIt is with genuine shame that I observe Madison Cawthorn is the first Millennial to hold high office in North Carolina. In typical underhanded fashion, he markets himself as a member of Generation Z, but having been born in 1995 he represents the tail end of the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 14, 2021 | Politics
ShareIn truth, civilizational defeat was intrinsic to the formation of America. Europeans did not “discover” terra incognita when they arrived on the shores of the western hemisphere in the late 15th century. Following first contact, three out of four...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 12, 2021 | Politics
ShareThe North Carolina General Assembly can seem like a stone wall standing in the way of any kind of progress in the state. Remarkably homogeneous and stubborn, the majority Republican caucus of the state legislature will not tolerate improvements in the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 11, 2021 | Politics
ShareBill Clinton’s reputation has waxed an waned for three decades, and now he finds himself in another slump. The #MeToo reckoning caught him in its morally urgent net, his policies on crime and welfare are widely seen as having worsened our problems of racial...
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