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The aftermath of the murder of George Floyd devolved from demonstrations to draw attention to systemic racism to full blown riots. Then things went from bad to crazy. Minneapolis voted to dissolve its police department, Lego stopped making plastic police figures, and the American Pander Bears were observed once again in an all-too-common sighting.
From Plessy v. Ferguson – the Supreme Court case that legalized segregation – to the civil unrest of the 1960's, 1990's, and throughout the twenty-first century, America has continuously failed to execute the mandate that all people are created with unalienable rights.
Traverse the sordid and regrettable history of systemic oppression in America and contemplate the possibility that not everyone's America matches the description in the brochure.
Explore the complexities of China’s invisible stranglehold on the global economy and journey with the Jacobins down a tantalizing path of intrigue and malice aforethought.
Since 1967, police have enjoyed the legal doctrine of ‘qualified immunity’, also known as ‘shoot first and don’t ask questions’. In light of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the peasantry once again have supplicated the Supreme Court to overturn qualified immunity via eight separate petitions. SCOTUS has declined to address the matter and has deferred it to Congress. Thus begging the question, “Who watches the watchers”?
China has grown from a simple society of agrarian feudalism to a global economic and military superpower in just seventy years, a feat rivalled only by America’s rise to power in the twentieth century.
In this two-part series that explores China’s role in the modern world, revisit the rise and fall of Dynastic China and the rise of its successor, the People’s Republic of China, a country of free peoples ruled by an authoritarian regime that ‘plays the long game’.
Donald resurrected a relic from the Cold War when he reactivated the United States Space Command. What does this mean when combined with other foreign policy decisions and warfare postures? Download Episode