In my free time this past summer I read Peter Green’s Alexander to Actium. I was writing up my thoughts on it for some friends but things got a little out of hand.

Fortunately, my favorite book blog, Mr. and Mrs. Psmith, agreed to publish it as a guest post.

Short thread below. Why read about the Hellenistic Age? The first reason is that it’s just really entertaining. “Like a real-life Game of Thrones” is a tedious idiom at this point, but this period actually earns it.

For starters, there’s the widespread royal incest. Also, giant mechanical snails.

With the Voting Rights Act in front of SCOTUS today, it’s worth remembering Nix v. Holder, an obscure legal case from President Obama’s first term.

Many have argued that the VRA primarily exists today to elect Democrats. It’s no theory: Democrats admitted it!

Thread. A town in North Carolina changed its elections via referendum to be non-partisan. The referendum passed easily including in the town’s black-majority neighborhoods. Nevertheless, Eric Holder blocked the law. Why?

Why? Because nonpartisan elections would specifically deny black voters their right to elect Democrats.

The rest of this Nikole Hannah-Jones article is as gross as its beginning. Its purpose is to morally shame anyone who would feel sad for Kirk as a racist and a bad Christian.

She praises a father for intervening after his daughter felt too upset about Kirk's murder, while being sure to repeat the revolting smear that he wanted to stone gays. Later in the piece, NHJ celebrates a professor who "cannot have empathy" for Kirk being murdered, because TPUSA criticized her for by her own admission using her faculty post at a public college to push left-wing politics ("because we dared to advocate for social justice").

Hannah-Jones shames us because a professor is "nervous" there is a TPUSA chapter on her campus, when Charlie Kirk was just murdered in cold blood by someone on the left.