Today is Wednesday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2026. There are 344 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 21, 1976, British Airways and Air France inaugurated scheduled passenger service on the supersonic Concorde jet. Also on this date: In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed by guillotine. In 1861,
In 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis, more than two years after setting out for the Pacific Northwest. In 1955, a jury in Sumner, Mississippi, acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, of killing Black teenager Emmett Till. (The two later admitted to the crime in an interview with Look magazine.) In 1957, nine Black students who entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.
Cultural and political movements often face backlash, as seen historically with Jim Crow and civil rights, and more recently with Trump’s campaign responding to Obama.
St. James Park is the site of a protest against President Trump's policies, marking it as a significant location for political statements and actions, including high-profile anti-Trump protests.
"Nothing...can sharpen the historian's mind like defeat." - Eric Hobsbawm, reflecting the value of learning from defeats and how many intellectuals have enriched our understanding from their own failures.
The resisters that I researched, by contrast, were laser-focused on creating change, whether through satire in 1920s Germany or modern-day peace advocacy.
"Buckley is often remembered as the architect of the modern conservative movement... Yet today, almost two decades since Buckley's death in 2008, the conservative landscape looks different."
