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15/04/2024

Log on to History, Rinse, & Repeat for a fun piece about how social media users' employment of code words to evade censorship has a long tradition.

While the History, Rinse, and Repeat article earlier this week focused on speech codes and regulations imposed on speech by a body of authority, just as interesting a topic is the flip-side of speech codes: self-censorship. The concept of uncensored and free speech is still a relatively new one, arg...

07/03/2024

https://historyrinserepeat.substack.com/p/smoke-and-mirrors-a-look-into-capitalist

A little over a year ago, the weight-loss drug Ozempic exploded in popularity, promising a quick and easy slim-down to anyone able to get the popular prescription. Of course, when one door opens, another closes – and in this case, the door seems to be closing on the body positivity movement, as no...

01/03/2024

https://historyrinserepeat.substack.com/p/talking-turkey-an-examination-of

The New York Times’ 1619 Project, that paper’s alternative take on the history and the purported effect of slavery on this country, begins with a dramatic tableau: “In August 1619, a ship appeared off the coast of Point Comfort, Virginia, carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold ...

22/02/2024

https://historyrinserepeat.substack.com/p/the-kings-leech-the-british-royal

Earlier this month, Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles had been diagnosed with cancer. Though specific details about his health have understandably been kept private, the press has reported that the king has returned to London to begin undergoing treatment, and we here at HR&R wish him a....

08/02/2024

https://historyrinserepeat.substack.com/p/when-constabulary-dutys-to-be-done

Over the past several months, this author has been consumed by two topics that have been dominating the news: the antisemitism that has swept this country generally, and college campuses specifically, and, more parochially, the plagiarism scandals that have engulfed Harvard. The two topics are inter...

04/02/2024

https://historyrinserepeat.substack.com/p/steppes-to-success-a-look-into-historys

Meritocracy seems like one of those systems that should be ubiquitous – throughout both history and in the present. After all, it makes basic sense that those who are best at what they do get promoted. But instances of meritocracy in historical organizations are relatively few. Even in groups wher...

17/01/2024

Read about "The Lazarus Effect" and learn why it will likely affect you and the coming generations in the future. Click below:

17/01/2024

https://historyrinserepeat.substack.com/p/aloha-claudine-gay

The past several weeks saw two abdications that are of personal interest to us here at History, Rinse & Repeat. In her annual New Year’s Day address, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Europe’s longest-reigning monarch, announced that she would leave the throne on January 14, 2024, fifty-two years t...

06/06/2023

A Look Into The American Tradition of Presidential Rematches:

Though the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election is still nearly one and a half years away, the race is beginning to get heated after several new candidates threw their hats into the ring over the past few weeks. On the Democratic side, Senator Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and self-help author Marianne Williamso...

22/05/2023

What's Wrong With Opera, Doc?

This week is “Confession Week” at History, Rinse, & Repeat. While this site generally tries to keep our articles on an impersonal level, last Tuesday A.H. Childs confessed that she has occasionally fallen prey to hour-long television binges. For today’s piece, I have my own confession to make ...

17/05/2023

"Bail To The Future": How Bail Reform, Jordan Neely, and Vigilantism Echoes The 1960s.

Over the past week, New York – and much of the United States – has been engulfed in the case of Jordan Neely. To give a brief refresher, Jordan Neely was a homeless man suffering from schizophrenia, among other mental health issues, who frequented the New York subways as a Michael Jackson impers...

05/05/2023

School Wars - What preppies can tell us about parents and education today. Subscribe for free to historyrinserepeat.substack.com.

One of the unforeseen consequences of the nation’s response to COVID has been the new and intense focus on the education of America’s children. The lockdowns put in place by governments around the country resulted in significant and irreparable damage to children who missed months, if not years,...

28/04/2023

The Dauphin of Delaware.

As recounted in History, Rinse, & Repeat, President Joe Biden recently engaged in his own, idiosyncratic brand of diplomacy by traveling to Northern Ireland and then the Republic of Ireland as part of a so-called “family reunion” trip. Among the peculiarities of the trip was the prominent role p...

26/04/2023

The similarities between trans issues and the history of multiple personality disorder.

The Similarities Between Trans Issues & The History of Multiple Personality Disorder

19/04/2023

The Budweiser Controversy - Is There "Lite" At the End of the Tunnel?

On Easter Sunday, we at History, Rinse, & Repeat ran a short piece on the burgeoning Budweiser controversy, in which Bud Light, the top-selling beer brand in this country, engaged a transgender Tik Tok influencer, Dylan Mulvaney, to be a company spokesman. The decision has caused widespread controve...

07/04/2023

Happy Easter: This Bud's not for everyone.

Note: this article includes embedded videos, which show up as links in email format. To see the videos formatted properly, just click the title of the article, which links to the desktop version. Today is Good Friday and, as is customary at History, Rinse, & Repeat

05/04/2023

Even in politics, s*x sells. How scandal actually helped Bill Clinton and is helping Trump.

Note: though we normally publish on Tuesdays and Fridays, we figured yesterday any news about Trump would be swamped and decided to publish today instead. We apologize for the delay. Well, yesterday was the day. Trump turned himself to a Manhattan courthouse in after being indicted by New York Distr...

29/03/2023

Alibi Ike: How A Forgotten Author Anticipated Our Current President.

We at History, Rinse, & Repeat (at least some of us) do not hold ourselves out to be connoisseurs of the arts. However, occasionally we like to recall artists from the past -- such as Gilbert & Sullivan or James Thurber -- who were renowned in their time but are now largely forgotten, and who had an...

25/03/2023

How Tik Tok Is Resurrecting Payola, The OG Corrupt Influencing Scheme.

Over the past couple of days, popular social media app TikTok has been thrust into the limelight again – this time due to congressional hearings to debate whether or not the Chinese-owned company should be banned in the United States. Critics of the platform have pointed to national security conce...

21/03/2023

"Narcos China": How the 18th Century O***m Wars Presaged The Drug Crisis On the Mexican Border.

The U.S.-Mexico border has recently been once again thrust into the limelight, if it ever left it. With the U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testifying before the House Committee on Homeland Security that this country does not have “operational control” over the Southern border, it appears in...

18/03/2023

Happy (belated) St. Patrick's Day. In the spirit of Sláinte, here are some fun headlines and newspaper clippings from publications of yore.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we figured here at History, Rinse, & Repeat that most people would rather be toasting with a glass of Guinness today than reading heftier think pieces. So, in the spirit of sláinte, we thought that instead of posting an article, we’d post a collection of entertain...

14/03/2023

Battle of the Bonds: Can Jerome Powell Replicate Alan Greenspan's "Soft Landing"?

In most cases, history “repeats” itself accidentally. However, there are times when this repetition is not accidental, but the product of an active attempt to repeat history to achieve a desired outcome. Such is the case with Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve, who have been openly following ...

10/03/2023

Did you know that Elijah Muhammad (of Nation of Islam fame) was once arrested for pro-Japanese activities in WWII?

Read more on this and the intersectionality of the Black and Asian communities below:

History, Rinse, & Repeat has previously addressed the efforts by so-called anti-racism advocates to ignore, if not eradicate, the history of anti-Asian racism by the invention of the term “White-Adjacent.” Drawing upon John Dower’s history of the Pacific War,

07/03/2023

"He Was Stoned" Was The Original "I Can't Breathe:" How BLM Protests Truly Began 100 Years Ago.

“Chicago is disgraced and dishonored,” reads a blistering declaration from the Chicago Daily Tribune. “Its head is bloodied and bowed, bloodied by crime and bowed in shame. Its reputation is besmirched. It will take a long time to remove the stain.”

04/03/2023

NATO and The Articles of Confederation.

We are very pleased that this Friday’s article is a guest contribution from Fredric Leopold (bio below). We hope you find it as interesting as we did! The North Atlantic Treaty is the 1949 agreement for common defense among its 12 original member nations. NATO’s own fact sheet describes it as ha...

28/02/2023

Off-Whitewashing History - How the Category " White-Adjacent" Ignores (and Repeats) the Legacy of Anti-Asian Racism.

As the United States Supreme Court deliberates its decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, in which a non-profit, suing on behalf of Asian students, challenged the admissions policies of Harvard as well as those of the University of North Carolina,...

24/02/2023

The Mar-a-Lago Massacre and the Trial of the (18th) Century.

Around a year ago, a group of lawyers joined together to create a group called the 65 Project. “Devised” by Democratic consultant and former Clinton administration official Melissa Moss and an offshoot of LawWorks, an organization that has received money from “progressive” forums, the 65 Pro...

21/02/2023

Damn Yankees: How Latin American Political Thought May Have Influenced The Pope's Attitude Toward the U.S.

With the passing of Pope Benedict at the turn of the year, the contrast between his papacy and that of his successor, Pope Francis, has been subject to reexamination. Benedict, as Daniel Henninger wrote last month in The Wall Street Journal, was a man of the West, who strongly defended Western cultu...

18/02/2023

America's Blue Guard: How U.S. Youth Is Creating Its Own Chinese Cultural Revolution.

A famous, and potentially apocryphal, quote by Winston Churchill goes: “i​f you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart, and if you are not a conservative when old, you have no brain.” Though political aficionados – especially younger conservatives and older liberals – may ...

14/02/2023

The Secret Life of Joe Biden: How The President Mimics a James Thurber Character.

History, Rinse, & Repeat advertises itself as a newsletter that highlights events in history that seem similar to those happening today. Occasionally, however, we stray from our core mission -- to examine the events of a period -- and instead explore the arts of a period to show their relevance to e...