#1950s

Patrick Deneen

PatrickDeneen

This profile of the changes to the Republican Party highlight several people and issues: @marcorubio and the call for “common good capitalism”; @oren_cass and the need for industrial policy; @yhazony

Ali Karjoo-Ravary علی کارجو راوری

akarjooravary

I'm excited about this, even if somehow, tens of thousands of years in the future, Hollywood thinks jihad is taboo. Herbert defined jihad as a crusade and saw them as

Nnabuenyi

ezenwaozor

Political Decoys in world history.Events of last few weeks kept many Nigerians wondering who really is occupying the highest office in the land.The controversial leader of IPOB, Nnamdi KANU in

Sarah Zhang

sarahzhang

In 2016, I was writing about the return of flesh-eating screwworms in Florida, when I learned about a U.S. government program that sounded totally bonkers1/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-conta

Bunny Sparber קיניגל שׁפּארבּער

maxsparber

There was a rabbi in Los Angeles in the 1950s named Marvin Shinderman and he had such a laugh. Let me tell you the miracle story about the Shinderman laugh.

Fred Sargeant

FredSargeant

#LesbianVisibiltyWeek Barbara Gittings was a key, major figure in the nascent LGB or homophile movement of the 1950s. Barbara founded the NYC Daughter of Bilitis chapter in 1958 and edited

Jibreel K. Riley

jibreelriley

Our loudest voices of Buffalo DO NOT LIVE IN THE CITY.They don’t live here!They don’t live here!They don’t live here!VersusThe PEOPLE who DO live in Buffalo demonstrated like they are

Black Coffee

RashidKameron

Welcome back class to lesson #3. Today we will discuss why the Confederate Flag Made a 20th Century Comeback. (thank you to @vareeditandweep for the inquiry): TL;DR: the popularity of

Ben Sellers

MrBenSellers

[thread] Yesterday, Momentum put out a meme in taxation that was glib, unhelpful, out-of-touch & quickly deleted. Mistakes happen, but I think there’s a deeper issue that affected not just

Alex Shams

seyyedreza

The Calcutta-London Bus Line, better known as "the Indiaman," an overland bus service that operated from the 1950s-1970s.The bus connected India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Italy, Austria, Germany,

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

For some unknown reason people keep trying to insist the Hammond organ is a sexy beast. Is it really?Let's find out... #FridayFeeling First made in 1935 the Hammond organ was

Christopher Bloomstran

ChrisBloomstran

Cathie @CathieDWood, Not a chance was US stock market cap/GDP greater in the late 1800s and early 1900s than it is today. It was a FRACTION of today's level. It

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

In most countries, conservatism involves "nostalgia" for fairly immediate pastE.g. In US, it is nostalgia for 1950s (before Sexual revolution)But in India, Hindu life from 18th/19th cen is not that

Marco Chitti

ChittiMarco

1/ This is a difficult thread I've longtime planned to do. I confess that, unlike many in here, I still have some sympathies for the "preservationist" or "heritage" argument in

Batman

iBombayIndian

Aksai Chin & the Line of Actual Control a thread.Aksai Chin is a story about the Humiliation of India at the hands of the people who we make jokes of

Gene Zubovich

genezubovich

Soon 6 of 9 Supreme Court justices will be Catholic. How did this come about in a country where Catholics make up ~20% of the population? And why are there