Tag: history

  • Big History in South Carolina

    Big History in South Carolina

    Nikki Haley and the American Civil War Nikki Haley (right) and former President Donald Trump during a 2018 meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. | Photo c/o The White House. Frederick Douglass, like anyone worth their salt in nineteenth-century America, loved quoting scripture. Douglass, in his essay “The Union and How to Save It,”…

  • Bureaucracy As Accidental Hero

    Bureaucracy As Accidental Hero

    Roberto Rossellini’s “Rome, Open City” and Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” Major Bergmann (right), played by Harry Feist, in Robert Rossellini’s Rome, Open City. Next to him is Ingrid, a German spy, played by Giovanna Galletti. Rome, Open City – the 1946 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini – is ostensibly about resistance fighters in The Eternal…