Category: History

It’s Friday and Che is still dead. Despite Trendy Hipster culture’s infatuation with a serial killer who’s been dead for 45 years I do see some sanity out there. Take for instance Caroline Carson, a student at the University of Maryland: The first time I saw a Che Guevara T-shirt was in the eleventh grade.…

Humberto Fontova points out the irony of Chicago teachers union protesters wearing a serial killer’s image: You just knew Che Guevara would show up as an icon of the union demonstrators in Chicago. Why? Well, let’s consider the factors in this demonstration by union-educators who were mostly educated by other union-educators: Che Guevara outlawed trade…