Michael R. Allen is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University and Research Fellow at the National Building Arts Center.
Much critical attention has followed President Donald Trump’s mendacious treatment of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Trump has now spent $16 million on a remaking of the pool undertaken with the careless disregard for ecology, history and
I also find myself streaming information when the gigantic black truck in the oncoming lane makes an abrupt, signal-free turn into the gas station parking lot to my right. I know that I can’t stop in time, so steer so as to avoid a head-on collision, thinking
Why did the dying empire illegally cross the boundary of a sovereign nation? To stop narcoterrorism. To liberate oppressed dissidents. To topple Communism. To eradicate radical Islamism. To preserve the Western way of life. To reunify the lands of a single people. To present the rise of a rival currency.
Minneapolis, 2026 By asserting her right to obstruct an American city street, Renee Good met her murder. This positioned her claim on the nation state against the one made by the current rulers in a highly symbolic political space. President Donald Trump’s white nationalist neo-fascist state aims to