N. Joseph Potts

Riders of the Juggernaut are exalted by right of their berths aboard it—they claim, and receive, whether graciously or haughtily, the adulation of the masses among whom the Juggernaut passes. The more-fervent among the throng find victims among their number to throw in its path by way of sacrifice that …

A “permanently in exile” graduate of the UK’s Leicester University is an adjunct professor of sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Meyers, Florida, from where he runs a number of little-visited blogs on subjects such as lynchings in his adopted neighborhood. Jonathan Harrison also works long …

Monuments come, and monuments go. And each generation is to blame for both.

The death in jail of Jeffrey Epstein last month recalls a very famous death of another jailed Jewish man charged (and convicted and sentenced) of crimes against a 13-year-old girl in 1913. That case, which involved only one of many rumored similar victims, involved the lethal abuse of a factory worker named Mary Phagan by the manager of the factory, 29-year-old pillar of the Atlanta Jewish community Leo Frank.

This victim, then a 67-year-old history professor at Arkansas Technical University, was claimed in 2005 by his colleague, a self-proclaimed Jew named James L. Moses, who made it known to their university’s president that his victim had included three books that “denied the Holocaust” among nine from which students …