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Ideas imported from US campuses are said to threaten French identity, but radical French thinkers have long inspired Americans, and vice versa
A French flag flies over the entrance of the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2018 (AFP)
Why are the French up in arms about critical theories and progressive ideas from US campuses and protest movements? What have we done right on US campuses, and in such historic events as the sustained course of the indigenous, civil rights and Black Lives Matter movements, to make the custodians of French imperial racism uncomfortable?
Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary is super spooky, even before it transforms itself from a crumbling historical landmark to a downright creepy haunted house. Here s what you should know about the iconic landmark.
1. Eastern State Penitentiary was supported by some of Philadelphia’s most famous citizens.
In the 18th century, Philadelphia s prisons were an overcrowded mess: Adults and children, men and women, were kept in what amounted to large holding pens and left to their own devices. Abuse by both fellow inmates and guards was rampant. So, in 1787, members of The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons met at Benjamin Franklin’s house to discuss an alternative. In his remarks that night, Benjamin Rush, a prominent doctor in the city, called for “a house of repentance,” which would eventually become Eastern State:
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