Roundup 
This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
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5/27/2022
The Roundup Top Ten for May 27, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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SOURCE: Slate
5/21/2022
The Brief Life and Watery Death of a 1970s Libertarian Utopia
by Raymond Craib
The Republic of Minerva was a product of a postwar moment when the wealthy sought to exit from a society they viewed as overbearing and doomed.
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SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
5/23/2022
Teach Black History to Help Prevent Racist Violence
by David Barber
The state of Tennessee's efforts to restrict the teaching of African American history seek to prevent white students from developing a historical consciousness that would encourage them to reject white supremacy.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
5/24/2022
The Arsenal of Autocracy
by William Hartung
If the current global situation is getting you down, think of the arms manufacturers: they're doing great.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
5/23/2022
Make Progressive Politics Constitutional Again
by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath
It is time to jettison the legal liberalism that holds constitutional interpretation separate from popular politics, or else the government's ability to legislate in the public interest will be destroyed.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/23/2022
Facing the Truth in the Land of Lee
by Laura Brodie
The controversy over removing Robert E. Lee's portrait from diplomas at Washington and Lee University points to an uncomfortable truth: Lee's historical depiction as handsome has been a visual symbol of the Lost Cause that has contributed to acceptance of the pro-Confederate mythology.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
5/25/2022
Biden's Remarks on Taiwan are Potentially Dangerous Provocation to China
by Stephen Wertheim
In itself, Biden's statement about defending Taiwan doesn't raise any possibilities that the Chinese military hasn't already considered. But it does threaten the American posture of "strategic ambiguity" that underlies diplomatic discussions.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/24/2022
The CRT and "Don't Say Gay" Panics Aren't About Controlling Public Schools, but Destroying Them
by Adam Laats
In the 1920s, the KKK sought to strengthen and control the public schools as vehicles to teach their version of "100% Americanism"; today's culture warriors hope to undermine trust in schools as a way to defund and privatize them.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
5/24/2022
White Replacement Theory is Fascism's New Name
by Jason Stanley and Federico Finchelstein
The global adoption of the idea of ethnic replacement by right-wing politicians is a repackaging of the themes of Jim Crow racism, eugenics and fascism.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/23/2022
When the Constitution Was Written, Abortion was a Choice Left to Women
by Lara Friedenfelds
"Before the 19th century, civil society regarded abortion as a private medical matter for married women, and a problem in need of occasional discipline when it was a sign of extramarital sex."
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SOURCE: CNN
5/20/2022
Are the Dems Doomed?
by Julian Zelizer
The Democrats are leaving themselves open to taking the blame at the polls for the war in Ukraine and high gas prices and the inevitable next wave of the COVID pandemic.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
5/22/2022
Will the War in Ukraine Doom International Climate Action?
by Michael Klare
The international tension provoked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine couldn't come at a worse moment for efforts to advance action to fight climate change.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/22/2022
Can We Condemn One Empire Without Affirming Another?
by Moon-Ho Jung
The experience of left-wing Japanese Americans, who rejected Japanese imperialism while being oppressed by American nationalism, shows that war forces an artificial binary of national allegiance.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/23/2022
The War Won't End Until Putin Loses
by Anne Applebaum
It's premature and wishful thinking to believe that Putin will consider any of the "off ramps" offered as solutions to the war.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/19/2022
What Parents Did Before Baby Formula
by Carla Cevasco
"The formula shortage is not a victory for breastfeeding. It is a calamity for families who, like families throughout history, just want to feed their children."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/20/2022
Buffalo and the Double Terror of Being Black in America
by Ibram X. Kendi
"For Black people to survive both racist policy and racist violence is grueling. To live as a Black American is to be a survivor."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/19/2022
Bringing CPAC to Hungary Betrays the Roots of the Conservative Movement
by Lauren Lassabe
It is a bitter irony that the postwar American conservative movement was energized by the anti-Stalinist Hungarian revolution of the 1950s; today the movement takes inspiration from a repressive regime and its autocratic leader.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/20/2022
Banning Abortion and The Buffalo Shooting are Connected
by Mytheli Sreenivas
The seeming coincidence of the Buffalo shooter's "Great Replacement" manifesto and the leaked Supreme Court decision actually highlights the way that women's reproductive freedoms are central to the politics of race and demography.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/20/2022
Midge Decter: An Overlooked Intellectual Forerunner of Trumpism
by Ronnie Grinberg
By connecting social turmoil to the decline of traditional family and gender roles even before Roe or the rise of second-wave feminism, Midge Decter created a foundation for the politics of family values.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/23/2022
The Imminent Demise of Roe Signals More Christian Nationalist Attacks on Secular America
by David Sehat
Christian conservatives are targeting not just abortion or contraception, but the broader idea of a secular American republic.
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