Tag: American history

Either we learn from failures (threats, disruptions, chaos, illegality) or we invite being buried by them.

History does not repeat, but in this case it emphatically rhymes. With Trumpist war cries for his New Nazism, we cannot avoid the obvious parallels.

History depicts the battle between “bad myths” that divide, even destroy, vs the “good myths” that speak to the grandeur of the American experiment.

Can the America of today be considered one of the greatest nations in the world?

The majority of Americans at that time, and even now, never dared to question what our government and embedded media shoveled at them.

Truth to tell, the word historic does get tossed around rather loosely these days.

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Today, Americans are forgetting.

We tend to believe that plots to overthrow the government are totally foreign to our national character. But we do do coups.

Or five lessons in the history of American defeat.

Have we been living in a futuristic science fiction novel through the most bizarre American century yet? Tom Engelhardt discusses the demobilization of the American people and the spectacle of the 2016 elections.