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Mary Henson's avatar

I love everything you write Noah, can I just directly download your work into my brain?! But seriously, thank you for always bringing something interesting and stimulating into my day!

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

thanks!

subscribing to the newsletter is kind of like downloading my work directly into your brain, right?

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Greg Parsons's avatar

I still have an unused OG Alt National Park Service sticker.

I guess I'll be getting that out in about a month. It's incredibly disheartening.

But I'm ready to fight again, even if I still can't watch the news yet.

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Robert Spottswood, M.A.'s avatar

This piece is very helpful and clarifying.

Adams’s denigration of Hamilton, and Hamilton‘s denigration of further immigrants seems like a great encapsulation of the dilemma they never did solve, and which we are still facing.

One sign of progress would be everyone agreeing on the need to take all the slaveholders off our Paper currency, up to and including Franklin on the 100.

That would leave Lincoln.

Another sign of serious progress would be for reparations to become a wildly popular idea so we could move on.

Just thinking ahead from this piece. Thanks for it.

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Rachel Baldes's avatar

Yes, I was confused by the seeming celebration with little context or kind of misleading context of "Hamilton". None of the founding fathers are going to be particularly idolic to me obviously, but what bothers me is how inaccurately the story of our freedoms is taught to our citizens from childhood on.

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

Yeah; Hamilton looks sort of good compared to Jefferson, but that's a low, low bar.

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Rachel Baldes's avatar

But that's not to say I'm a fan of Burr.

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Rachel Baldes's avatar

When Aaron Burr looks kinda maybe better, yeah the bar is low.

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Stormy's avatar

Oh, The Establishment. I have one of their t-shirts in my closet.

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