Evening Roundup, November 14
Featuring Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, & Jen Rubin; Frederic J. Frommer; Meredith Blake; Carron J. Phillips, Abraham Kenmore, Ruben Bolling, Emily Beyda, The Contrarian Podcast, & our Pet of the Week!
American Revolutionaries, They're Just Like Us! Ken Burns & Sarah Botstein on new film The American Revolution
Grab your feather hats and your 13 colony flags! Brilliant, award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns and his equally talented co-director Sarah Botstein are here with Jen to discuss their stunning & surprising new documentary, The American Revolution.
100 years ago, an all-Black team beat the KKK on a baseball diamond
By Frederic J. Frommer
It wasn’t your typical baseball game when the Ku Klux Klan faced off against the all-Black Monrovians in Wichita a century ago...
Culture recs: Ken Burns tackles the American Revolution and our legacy of violence
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably spent the last few days poring over the avalanche of Jeffrey Epstein emails released this week, wondering how anyone with such. erratic punctuation and spelling was ever considered a genius, and shaking your head in disgust at his cozy interactions with people like Larry Summers.
Getting an NFL stadium named in his honor won’t be enough to save Trump’s irredeemable legacy
By Carron J. Phillips
The Washington Commanders and the NFL continue to be the president’s gimmick, and it’s starting to feel like they enjoy it.
Book Review: The Price of Democracy
The opposition to taxation in America has usually come not from grassroots opposition but from anti-democratic economic elites, according to Vanessa S. Williamson’s The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History. Williamson spoke with The Contrarian about her book.
Labor Lasagna
I’ll be the first to admit it—it’s a strange time to be having a baby. As my mother reminds me when talking about her own youth, nuclear destruction on the horizon, tension in the air, this has always been the case. But there’s something about Trump 2 that feels especially bleak. It’s hard to carve out a sliver of personal joy…
Health care costs will get worse & Why Tom Malinowski wants to head back to Congress
There was a lot of news to follow this week, but we are still laser focused on rising health care costs that will impact millions of Americans. Rural hospitals, the middle-class, vulnerable groups, and even those with insurance through work are all at risk.
Contrarian Pet of the Week
We told you we wanted to have fun, and we take fun seriously at The Contrarian. Each week we will share The Contrarian pet(s) of the week. (The pet need not be contrarian.) Subscribers are invited to submit their furry friend!
Not sure how to do Pet of the Week: meet Thor(Old School). 25 year old rescued thoroughbred that I have had for 8 years. He was 250 pounds underweight when I rescued him. He actually sold for $200,000 when he was a yearling , won several races, and then his history went blank. He’s very sweet and affectionate but still thinks his running the Derby even at 25. He’s quirky and gallops, rears and bucks while playing in the pasty. I love Thor dearly and he has a home with me for the rest of his life❤️how do I send pictures?
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