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Continue reading →: “Law and Order” or Power Grab? Trump’s Military Response to L.A. Protesters
The recent protests in Los Angeles did not arise in a vacuum. They were ignited by heavy-handed federal immigration operations and have been seized upon by President Donald Trump not as incidents to defuse, but as a political opening. In a few short days, a storm of events – from…
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Continue reading →: Edward S. Curtis and the Myth of the Vanishing Indian
Author’s Note This Father’s Day, I received a truly magnificent gift from my wife and our two sons: the monumental Taschen edition of Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian. As a historian — and as someone deeply engaged with the ethics of memory, representation, and historical justice — I…
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Continue reading →: The Big Beautiful Bill, the Debt, and the End of Discipline
What’s in the “Big Beautiful Bill”? In late May 2025 House Republicans pushed through a massive tax-and-spending reconciliation package nicknamed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” President Trump’s signature domestic priority. The plan would extend and add to the 2017 Trump tax cuts – for example keeping lower individual income…
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Continue reading →: Reagan Then and Now: Revisiting His Legacy in the Age of Trump
Ronald Reagan’s presidency remains one of the most consequential and mythic eras in modern American history. Elected amid economic malaise and Cold War anxieties, Reagan projected an optimistic vision of the United States and championed a bold conservative agenda. Part I of this essay traces the key contours of Reagan’s…
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Continue reading →: The Strongman and His Stooge? Putin’s Quiet Contempt for Trump
In the theater of global politics, few relationships have been as scrutinized—and as lopsided—as that between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. While Trump has often portrayed himself as a master negotiator, recent events suggest that he may be more of a pawn than a player in Putin’s grand strategy. A…
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Continue reading →: Frontline of the Free World: Ukraine, the U.S., and the Next Global Order
Author’s NoteAs a historian and outside observer, I wrote this essay to make sense of the United States’ evolving role in the Ukraine war, drawing especially on Adam Entous’s powerful March 2025 investigation in The New York Times. While this piece contains no direct quotations, it follows the factual backbone…
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Continue reading →: When the Facts Don’t Matter: Truth-Telling in an Age of Unbelief
Not long ago, a friend sent me a video he found compelling. It featured Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a Dutch political commentator known for her far-right rhetoric, speaking at a public event in Hungary. In the video—now widely shared across nationalist circles—she offered a grim diagnosis: Europe, she claimed, is unraveling under…
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I’m Quentin Detilleux, an avid student of history and politics with a deep interest in U.S. history and global dynamics. Through my blog, I aim to share thoughtful historical analysis and contribute to meaningful discussions on today’s political and economic challenges.
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