Jennifer Ford, the historical society’s executive director, said Butler has seen flashes of political tension before, especially considering the community’s proximity to heavily unionized Pittsburgh. But Ford said she can’t recall another time that was "as outright...
American-Australian Relational History
Think, as a City, how Brisbane appears from the other side of the world
Think, as a City, how Brisbane appears from the other side of the world. Featured Image (1): Screenshot 2024-09-03 City Watch. https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/29477-time-to-take-the-narrative-back-and-stop-our-city-from-becoming-the-laughingstock-of-america...
The Best of Politics, Globally, Not Just from The United States: Common Sense Progressivism
The following are sociological and historical analysis from Dr Buch, a progressive scholar. For critical attention to these progressive statements during the DNC, go to the PBS Fact-Checking websites. The Best of Politics, Globally, Not Just from...
What is academic and what is scholarly in today’s politics?
I am a controversial professional scholar who does not "bets on Substack," but has been an extensive user of social media, for several decades, for my post-university scholarship work. I do not have "right-wing links to sustain scholarship after exiting formal"...
American-Australian Relations in Global Context since the 1990s (since early 18th century)
There are confused thinking on politics today in the United States and Australia. Recently, a critic wrote as an attack on my Australian sharing, of an American interview, of a noted American historian on Trumpism. This social media person wrote:...
J. D. Vance’s Insult to America is to Propagandize American Modernism
Jessica Gavora, in The Atlantic (July 25, 2024, 7:31 AM ET) wrote: I thought of Dad last week, when the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, said something that profoundly misjudged and disrespected his memory. “America is not...
Populist Nationalism Will Not Deliver; We have been Here Before, many times…
Recently, June 2024, I participated in an online workshop on Conservative Public History international forum. It revealed that, what we are experiencing in Australia, is the same across the planet: “Across the world right-wing popular political movements are...
Middletown. If you really want to understand, instead of the political propaganda bullshit
J.D. Vance's hometown, Middletown, Ohio, if you want to really understand...(from Wikipedia) Middletown studies were sociological case studies of the white residents of the city of Muncie in Indiana initially conducted by Robert Staughton...
From a quote from out in the world…This is what global persons feel.
"In red states there is a movement to dumb the public. It starts in the educational realm where critical thinking is not simply not taught, it is actively discouraged. If history teach the rest of us that it can repeat itself then citizens of red states are not...