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Did America Fight For The Four Freedoms During World War Two?

Posted on May 4, 2024 by nathanalbright

Every once in a while, some historian will beclown themselves trying to resurrect the four freedoms as being a worthwhile policy aim of the government that represents obvious rights that belong to all people in the United States (and elsewhere), … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Forever Free

Posted on April 25, 2024 by nathanalbright

Forever Free: The Story Of Emancipation And Reconstruction, by Eric Foner and Joshua Brown What is it that makes this book so superior, in general, to Foner’s other works on the subject of Reconstruction? It is obvious, for example, in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Broken Constitution

Posted on November 14, 2023 by nathanalbright

The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, And The Refounding Of America, by Noah Feldman When I first began reading this book, I was at least mildly sympathetic to the author’s argument that Lincoln sought to transform the meaning of the American … Continue reading →

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On The Experience Of Catalonia In Three Nations

Posted on June 24, 2023 by nathanalbright

While Catalan is by no means one of the biggest languages spoken of in Europe, much less the world, it does have several million speakers, which is a completely acceptable amount to have a decently sized nation for itself on … Continue reading →

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Thinking As We Ought About The Freedom Of Others

Posted on June 19, 2023 by nathanalbright

As I write this, it is about 4:30AM on Juneteenth, and I am waiting in an airport terminal in Portland for the first of many flights on a trip I am taking that will have me–at least as far as … Continue reading →

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Little People In Harm’s Way

Posted on June 10, 2023 by nathanalbright

For the past couple of days or so I have been reading a book (review forthcoming) that is about the little peoples who inhabited the area originally known as Lotharingia. This name is not likely to be very familiar to … Continue reading →

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You Can Run, But You’ll Never Escape Sunset In The Maze

Posted on June 7, 2023 by nathanalbright

So far at least, my favorite hit song of 2023, among the songs that have clinched a spot on the Year-End charts (to be released in early December), is the song Escapism, by Raye featuring 070 Shake. Among the more … Continue reading →

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Do Small Nations Have A Right To Exist?

Posted on March 26, 2023 by nathanalbright

We live in a world that frequently exalts companies and institutions that are massive, to the point where they threaten to take over the entire world and bring it under subjection to some sort of unaccountable authority that thinks it … Continue reading →

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The Fetters Of Freedom

Posted on December 14, 2022 by nathanalbright

One of the characteristics of technological improvements are that while the initial wave of such improvements tends to increase freedom, the second wave that lags behind tends to leave people even more in chains than before. While this phenomenon has … Continue reading →

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On Free Will And The Savior

Posted on September 16, 2021 by nathanalbright

As I write this, it is about four and a half ours or so into the Day of Atonement where I reside. One of the most relevant chapters about this day, one that I have heard cited at least a … Continue reading →

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