The Fallout of the Roman Empire

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"It's just very difficult to ameliorate much less reverse or undo all of these myriad changes that have unfolded as civil rights law has been abstracted and reified," he says. "The film is a portrait of this kind of inexorable character who is just, you know, always and already willing to do whatever it takes to kind of obtain his desideratum." It would not surprise me if these kind of weird throws that we are in right now will themselves continue to reverberate for perhaps a very long time come?

French police shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old immigrant of Algerian and Moroccan descent with a long history of criminal activity, sparking violent protest across the country. Is this France’s George Floyd moment—or something darker still? Stateside, the courts have been on a roll, preliminarily blocking the Biden administration from overtly colluding with social media companies and banning explicit race-based affirmative action in university admissions. The editors discuss the rolling civilizational crisis and, of course, remind you to read the damn site.