Politics and its Discontents

Anyone who reads this blog regularly probably knows that I am something of a cynic when it comes to our species. Sure, there are many excep...

While the gospel of the right-wing extols selfish individualism in which we worry only about our own well-being, this video of a dramatic re...

Reading or writing about politics can be an exercise in both cynicism and hope: cynicism because the worst of human nature is often on displ...