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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.

An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.

For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.

He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.

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A new approach to Confederate monuments

Stephen H. Provost

The problem with these monuments is that… they fail to offer any context. They glorify both the defense of slavery and the act of taking up arms against fellow citizens. It’s one thing to remember the evils of our own history, as we should, but it’s quite another thing to excuse or even celebrate them.

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How liberals push white allies toward extremism

Stephen H. Provost

How many open-minded people wind up feeling so shamed by liberal identity-blame that they embrace racist extremism? It’s hard to say. But the defensiveness is real, and many who don’t wind up in bigoted cults will feel caught in a Catch-22: The side they agree with will never fully accept them, but they don’t agree with the side that would.

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Why are racists surfacing now? Because they're finally losing

Stephen H. Provost

Trump’s immovable “base” isn’t loyal to him so much as they’re desperately loyal to the idea of a vanishing white-majority nation. He’s made himself a symbol of that by pandering to white supremacists and defending Confederate symbols, so they’ve latched onto him as a potential savior. But the fact is that, despite their panicked fervor, they’ve never pushed Trump’s popularity into majority territory.

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