The Roots of Pro-Gun Zealots’ Rage

The Roots of Pro-Gun Zealots’ Rage

The right-wing mind seems impervious to tragedy. This week’s brutal violation of social peace at UNC has not shaken the conservative commitment to maximal gun rights, despite a death on campus and a wave of trauma devastating the university and the state. These...
Terror

Terror

It was raining on the afternoon of the shooting. The Devil was beating his wife, as we say in the South. In Carrboro near UNC campus, everyone in our lively and upbeat community had a traumatized look on their face. At Armadillo Grill, a family sat munching their...
The Case for an American Renaissance

The Case for an American Renaissance

Like a butterfly breaking free from a cocoon, America has often been reborn as something new. These renewals took place in the colonial era, in the Antebellum awakenings and reforms, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights era. America’s plasticity is its great...
Florida Lite

Florida Lite

The United States of America is transforming into 25 Californias and 25 Floridas. In the context of this dichotomy, reactionary purism is the more potent force. Red-state America has, over the past five years, transmogrified from a conservative outpost of the Western...

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