Rachel Ferguson

Jul 18, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Will Rinehart |Luis Parrales |Rachel Ferguson |John Mccormack

Welcome back to Techne! I’ve become slightly obsessed with the culture of Mound Builders. Last Friday, I walked around Cahokia Mounds and scaled the largest mound, Monks Mound, with my friend Dr. William Aungst. Located across the Mississippi River from St. Louis (and pictured below), Monks Mound at its base is about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. At its peak, there were about 30,000 people in the Cahokia region.

Jul 1, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Ilya Somin |Jonah Goldberg |Kevin Vallier |Rachel Ferguson

Politics Conservatives and libertarians need to reassess their priorities. Published July 1, 2024  • Updated June 30, 2024 Many conservatives and libertarians today lament the rise of “wokeness,” even to the point of believing it to be the greatest political danger facing America. Some of these fears are well-taken.

Jun 9, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Jonah Goldberg |Gil Guerra |Rachel Ferguson

Hello and happy Sunday. One of the great things about working in journalism generally—and The Dispatch in particular—is that I can do my job from just about anywhere. This being June, that means I’m coming to you from the baseball field. Our middle son is 17, about to enter his senior year of high school, and he’s a pitcher.

Jan 15, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Rachel Ferguson

Despite his while he was alive, today almost all Americans praise Martin Luther King Jr. as the hero of a badly needed civil rights movement. Conservatives included. Those on the right especially seem to agree that the conservative resistance to King’s efforts stemmed from a racial animus now happily discarded. Whatever legal objections that stood in the way of approving the Civil Rights Act of 1964 seem trivial in retrospect.

Oct 7, 2023 | thedispatch.com | Rachel Ferguson

It’s undeniable that a hyperfocus on race, gender, sexuality, and all things identity has in recent years made personal and policy conversations more tense and vitriolic. A helpful new book parses through how this process unfolded—and why it’s done more harm than good.