Wilson’s War to End Democracy
In Rick Wilson we see a man fitting Teddy Roosevelt’s description of Woodrow Wilson: unable to rise above the cheapest kind of party politics and raise a division for the man in the arena.
Kevin’s McCarthyism
Latter-day McCarthyism is a minority of one, not the moral voice of a House majority.
Volcker’s Rule
We need a president with political capital to spend and a Federal Reserve Board chairman with the will to tighten the supply of capital, so the pain of austerity may yield the joy of prosperity.
Dissed by the Mother of Disinformation
Does Nina Jankowicz believe that a presidency dependent on disinformation, with a dependent as president, makes the world safe for democracy?
Chicken-Hawk Kyiv
Though we have the might to meet force with force, Ukraine’s fight is not our own. We have no land to conquer and no victory to attain.
Make Congress Great Again
Imagine a Republican majority electing former President Trump as speaker of the House. It could happen.
The Lights of Hanukkah and Christmas
May the light deliver us from the darkness of pride, arrogance, and hate.
With Malice Toward All
Biden’s Christmas message is the most ahistorical and antagonistic message of its kind, for it is without charity or kindness.
Woodrow Wilson’s World
We are free to choose peace—to keep the peace—with liberty and justice for all Americans. This much—and more—we owe the nation and our veterans.
Post-Truth, Social Justice, and the Trans-American Way
The history of Superman is strong because it is simple. Less simple is the will to resist those who would modernize history to the point of absurdity.
Ivy League Detention Centers
The cultural illiteracy of this class is of a piece with the moral illiteracy of the jury responsible for this class. To our armories of liberty, students and jurors shrug.
A Prescription for Injustice
The $26 billion legal settlement with three drug companies over opioid abuse is fair and just, while the most unsettling part is the effort to delay justice and deny families just compensation.
A Viral Load of Crap
That people choose to live a certain way in these COVID times is not proof that a majority of people support the lifestyle.
Laws of Nature, Not a State of Nature
If we cannot reconcile progress with preservation, if we believe the two are irreconcilable, we cannot be a nation of Hamiltonian powers and Jeffersonian rights.
Transforming Hope and Progress Into Misery and Despair
The man-child is the enemy of workers, not the voice of the working class.
Divided They Fall
The forces of injustice, for the perpetuation of injustice, in the name of social justice.
Life After the Death of Work
Whether the victor is big tech or big business, whether the vanquished is big labor or big government, bigness is the problem.
The Trial of Watching the ‘Chicago 7’
Aaron Sorkin says he knew very little about the trial before researching it for this film. It shows.
Comic Con Comes to Capitol Hill
When the clowns and cosplayers of our political drama create a reality that’s stranger than fiction.
The Greene-ing of America
We have a republic to keep, not a Republican Party to protect at any cost.