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Gregory Rodriguez

@gregoryrodriguez.bsky.social
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Writer/Callejero/Lebenskünstler. Author: Whiteness: An American Tragedy and Other Essays and Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America

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Bunk @bunkhistory.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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The Constitution is a Political Document, Not a Sacred One.
Don't let its universalist language fool you.
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Gregory Rodriguez @gregoryrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The U.S. is too big to love. It needs more localism and to rearrange the relationship between regional and national cultures.
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The U.S. Has Become the Cultural Equivalent of a Big Box Store. Localism Can Help Americans Feel More at Home.
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Gregory Rodriguez @gregoryrodriguez.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The images from California are depressing. The words they come wrapped in sometimes make them all the worse.
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In Defense of Immigrants, Beware the Politics of Pity
Photos and videos of masked ICE agents dragging away undocumented immigrants are chilling on multiple levels.
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Gregory Rodriguez @gregoryrodriguez.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I hopped a train to León, Spain, and wrote an essay on America's Constitution. Beneath its inspiring universalist language and heavy mythology, our founding legal framework is--like all constitutions--a political document born of bargains and compromises. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Don't Let the Constitution's Universalist Language Fool You.  It's a Political, Not a Sacred Document.
Madrid, Spain You know how learning about ancient cultures can give you insights into the mysterious habits of contemporary humans?  Well, the same goes for learning about complex modern institutions....
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Gregory Rodriguez @gregoryrodriguez.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Jimmy Carter feared Americans had chosen the wrong path. "Down that road,” he warned, “lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility." We ignored him.
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America Ignored Jimmy Carter at its Own Peril - Contra Mundum
Atlanta, Georgia One of the many flaws in American governance is that the president is expected to be both chief executive and head of state.  There is no division of duties as in Britain between the ...
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