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May 6, 2025

Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past…while we silence the rebels of the present.

Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998), American historian, educator, Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1959), Seldes p.89

What would he have to say about the events of January 6, 2021?

Rebellion, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.


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