If you’ve been following American politics for the past five years, you may have noticed an unhealthy pattern: The left, which controls most cultural institutions, uses soft power to shape them in an ever more progressive direction. The right, which controls few cultural institutions but does possess political power, passes vague and heavy-handed polici…
The History of Slavery Should Not Be Partisan
The statue of Robert E. Lee’s removal in Richmond, Virginia, on September 8, 2021. (Amr Alfiky/National Geographic Pool via Getty Images)
The president wants to stop talking about ‘how bad slavery was.’ But if we want to heal racial divisions, we need more facts—not fewer.
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