Politics and its Discontents

It may seem redundant to place the adjective ugly in front of  Americans . After all, their regular deportment, both domestically and inter...

We live in a time replete with constant reminders that having and maintaining a healthy democracy requires hard work, work predicated on kno...

The term snowflake has traditionally been used by the right to denigrate progressives; it is a pejorative suggesting that the left is too ea...

“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally imposs...

With so many terrible things transpiring in today's world, it is often hard to feel any hope. Wars and injustices abound, and we are met...

In this blog, I am always happy to cite writers whose insights are worthy of note. My sources of those writers are many, and sometimes arise...

Unfortunately, the lionization of the late racist Charlie Kirk is not confined to the Benighted States of Amerika. To the Conservatives of C...