Areo magazine has published another essay of mine, Bravado in the Absence of Order, which examines why African-American urban communities have such high rates of homicide and other violence. The essay uses medieval history, and contemporary societies other than the US, to illuminate social patterns that are less clear if one just looks at the US in isolation.
"Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers always told their sons that, even though
they had their children during their 11 years 'underground,' they stopped
illegal political activity when they became parents."
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"He learns in his research, however, that one of their early family camping
trips was actually a stakeout of a federal prison — the Black Liberation
Army h...
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