John Brown: On the Right Side of History?

It must be this wave of Black Lives Matter enthusiasm: I have recently heard multiple people assert that John Brown was on “the right side of history”. Really? Yes, slavery was wrong, we would say today, guided by history’s moral zeitgeist (as Dawkins would call our evolving sense of morality), but there’s more to JohnContinue

Race and Wrestling

In 1938, Joe Louis beat Max Schmeling for the world heavyweight championship of boxing. It was a different time, a time of more overt racism, and many whites were rooting for the German Schmeling in the bout against the black Louis. To the dismay of many white Americans, “The Brown Bomber” Joe Louis made ratherContinue