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it/its 🏳️⚧️ Freelance editor (Rowan Tree Editing) 📝 A marxist humanist🏺with American pragmatist and somatic idealist characteristics
it/its 🏳️⚧️ Freelance editor (Rowan Tree Editing) 📝 A marxist humanist🏺with American pragmatist and somatic idealist characteristics
![Although Roberts's 2006 work A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 won critical acclaim from some sections of the media,[42][43] The Economist drew attention to some historical, geographical, and typographical errors, as well as presenting a generally scathing review of the book. The newspaper referred to the work as "a giant political pamphlet larded with its author's prejudices".[7] More generally, Reba Soffer described him in 2009 as "devoted ... to public, polemical conservatism as well as to historical revisionism".[44]
One claim made by Roberts in A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 was that Harvard historian Caroline Elkins had committed "blood libels" in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Imperial Reckoning.[45] Elkins was subsequently vindicated when files released by the National Archives showed that abuses were described as "distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia" by the Solicitor General of the time.[46]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2wy6sjkyxlqxtne2xjyulb3/bafkreierycfg42lpuncii77ouzios7aihpl4cir5bio6bungxoox2okfgu)
!['The project A City Called Mirage was
conceived at a time when the city of
Luanda (Angola] was experiencing a boom in construction', Henda explains. 'People looked at these impressive new buildings appearing in the city as a symbol of development, but the truth is that the vast majority would never have the opportunity to enter such spaces.
Rusty Mirage documents the construction of large sculptures based on the outlines of an imagined city in the Al-Araz desert, Jordan. Henda draws on the Tchokwe peoples' tradition of sona, geometric designs marked in the sand by storytellers. His sculpture, The Fortress, tells the story of unfinished and derelict areas of cities across the globe. Henda reflects on practices that see buildings left vacant while so many experience homelessness.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2wy6sjkyxlqxtne2xjyulb3/bafkreib2nzkagz4qmkidhhegxknwaihdjem67z562zr5cdwdsbvyxmuqbq)
