Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988)

Romance 2.0 on Instagram! “What Type  of Girlfriend Would You Date?”
S. Venus Jin1, Ehri Ryu2, and Aziz Muqaddam3

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474704919826845

What we know from histories like Stan Harrold’s study, about a couple of years on the border, and also from earlier studies on mobbing, almost all of the lethal violence, not murder which is interpersonal violence, but almost all of the social violence, or public violence of the antebellum period, is around slavery.

So, my sense is that antebellum Americans knew that slavery is a catalyzing agent that is unique in the way in which it draws people into stronger and stronger conflict that can escalate to the point of death.

The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
Tom Barber tbarbe6@lsu.edu

https://www.lawfareblog.com/us-withdrawal-syria-opportunity-china

More likely an opportunity for Americans to have a government that is less imperialistic and war criminalish.

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/02/feds-launch-investigation-into-disappearance-of-saudi-students-facing-us-charges.html

https://fedsoc.org/commentary/publications/sleeping-giant-section-two-of-the-thirteenth-amendment-hate-crimes-legislation-and-academia-s-favorite-new-vehicle-for-the-expansion-of-federal-power

https://apnews.com/ee6c4f87b26048d485d8339e8c3fc837

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/17/louisiana-abortion-law-brett-kavanaugh-dissent/

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/ruins-city-mosul-190217105739693.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/pledge-of-allegiance-arrest-florida-child-polk-county-flag-racist-school-a8783766.html

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/2/13/18222498/apple-news-publisher-deal-50-percent-lol