The Racial Industrial Complex: Why Healing Is Bad for Business
If you’ve ever wondered why some people seem allergic to national healing, follow the incentives. Misery has an economy. Outrage has a payroll.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
If you’ve ever wondered why some people seem allergic to national healing, follow the incentives. Misery has an economy. Outrage has a payroll.
This is Part II of a two-part series that is analyzing the La Reconquista movement. It calls for the cultural, demographic, or political “reclamation” of the U.S. Southwest, which Mexico lost after the Mexican-American War.
In 1846, the United States invaded Mexico. The war was controversial then, and remains deeply significant now—not just because it added vast territory to the U.S., but because it revealed core truths about how political ideology, nationalism, and instability can lead to major conflict.