Liberal Democracy in 1900: Liberal Democracy in 2017 (though let's recolor India and Hungary, shall we?): Assuming the Republicans still...

I'm having a pretty hard time handling the election results this morning. As I write, Biden may still narrowly win, but the vote mainly...

Language matters; three words that matter more than most right now - because our politicians are encouraging us to get it all wrong about...

At the GOP convention, Mike Pence has been winning back some nervous Wisconsin voters by promising that Donald Trump, man of Law and...

Not being of the Fascism-Curious Party, I will vote for Joe Biden in the Fall. Being sufficiently revolted by the FCP that I have...

Armed men, acting on the President's orders but with their agency and identity disguised, abduct peaceful protesters from the streets,...

The recent death of John Lewis, civil rights giant and author of the wonderful MARCH trilogy, has filled the news with copies of the...

Recently I was sent an opinion-piece written by the comedian Tim Allen; it defends (or anyway announces) a list of "conservative"...

Doing some research on iconic speeches in times of crisis, I am struck by the common thread: all of them - Lincoln's Second Inaugural,...

As Orwell almost said, Little DoubleThinker Is Scamming You. This morning The New York Times treated us to a piece by one of their...

Jefferson's house has been set on fire. Ignorance is one of the chief accelerants. But perhaps that cuts two ways. (1) At the Michigan...

For three long years now America has been ravaged by the highly infectious and potentially lethal disease Covfefe-16. You may recall that...

We received this frightening little postcard yesterday. The contrast between the front and the back says so much. On the back there is...

It's a commonplace in American and much other discourse, from the farthest reaches of the market-evangelical libertarian right to the...

Listening to NPR yesterday, I was informed (is that the right word?): "There are only 60 confirmed cases of infection by the Covid-19...

Attorney General William Barr has complained that Donald Trump's tweets make it impossible for him to do his job. This is tellingly...

My old friend Aristotle is well known for the claim that moderation is a virtue - indeed, that we can locate virtue at the point of...

For three years now, an oily moral poison has been leaking from the wrecked hull of that stately grand dame of the democratic oceans, the...

The People: 30%. Reactionary lick-spittle unpatriotic bourgeois foreign anarcho-terrorist student black-hand hooligan elements: 70%...