Shikha Dalmia — How Does Minority Activism Help Stop Authoritarianism?

Alex Aragona speaks with Shikha Dalmia about minority groups as defenders of rights and freedoms, and the North American libertarian movement during and after Donald Trump's presidency.

References from Episode 83 with Shikha Dalmia

• You can read Shikha’s articles published at Reason Foundation here and her articles in The Week here. 
• Here are some statistics of the the share of votes for Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the 2020 Presidential Election by ethnicity, produced by Statista.
• This is the Washington Post article by Radley Balko that was referenced by Shikha during the podcast, titled, Meet the police chief turned yoga instructor prodding wealthy suburbanites to civil war.
• Here is Ward Connerly’s biography.
• You can access the full text of the Federalist Papers by James Madison at this link.
• The Liberty Fund has a full version of the letter written by Lord Acton to Bishop Creighton which includes the famous quote, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely” (1887) at this link.
• This link will direct you to the original text of The Civil Rights Act (1964).
• This is an article detailing the history of the poll tax in America.
• This is a BBC article that discusses the exclusion of Muslims from the reforms to India’s Citizenship Act.
• Shikha briefly mentions the population dynamics inAntebellum America. Here is an article on the demography of the slave population in Antebellum America for extended reading that was featured in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
• This is the codification of Title XI of the Education Amendments Act (1972).
• The Washington Post has an article on Barry Goldwater’s history that was released in commemoration of his passing in 1998 and can be accessed here. 
• You can read more articles written by David French, a Christian conservative critical of Trump and proactive on the topic of religious freedom, at his profile on The Dispatch here.
• This is a link to some quotes by Samuel Johnson on liberty.