"The myth of the Frontier is our oldest and most characteristic myth, expressed in a body of literature, folklore, ritual, historiography, and polemics produced over a period of three centuries. According to this myth-historiography, the conquest of the wilderness and the subjugation or displacement of the Native Americans who originally inhabited it have been the means to our achievement of a national identity, a democratic polity, an over-expanding economy and a phenomenally dynamic and 'progressive' civilization."

Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation

02.01.21




Russian MiG-21 Jet Fighter Wing, Dubois, Wyoming (2020)

01.20.21



“Any historian of warfare knows it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.“

Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”
Read the full essay here

01.19.21




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