The masters ought to have compensated the slaves, as Thaddeus Stevens later suggested, in the USA. But that was politically impossible at the time. In effect, the slavers were paid a ransom. Waiting … (View Post)

FPT@cyclefree. Mass rape is a terror tactic, which goes beyond men seeing the women of the enemy as one of the spoils of war. It’s really a form of torture. (View Post)

I think it is more worrisome when this kind of thing comes from the intellectual elite than from people whose knuckles scrape the ground. (View Post)

The winner got the prize for his opinions, not for the quality of his work. (View Post)

It was a remarkable exchange. It shouldn’t have been difficult to give an unqualified “Yes.” (View Post)