The Mamdani Peace Dividend?

Photograph Source: NYC Mayor’s Office – CC BY 4.0

On March 5, 1770, a crowd of Boston colonists gathered to protest British soldiers quartered among them, taxing them without parliamentary representation, occupying their city like a conquered territory. When the redcoats fired, the first man to fall was Crispus Attucks—a sailor of African and Wampanoag descent, possibly an escaped slave, certainly a man for whom the freedoms being contested that night would not be extended. Certainly, Crispus...