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• Bernie: Time to Support Biden

  

  In any human endeavor, rationality demands asking what purpose is served. It’s not always obvious.What purpose is served now by Sanders continuing to campaign? Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Coronavirus/Covid19: Don’t Panic, It’s Just Flu

  

  It may or may not be a pandemic, but it is certainly a panic. A huge chunk of Italy, including Milan and Venice, is locked down, as is much of Washington State. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Contradiction: Religion and Results for U.S. Blacks

  

  In Jeremiah Camara’s film Contradiction: A Question of Faith, the question is whether blacks’ religiosity helps or harms them.They tend to be more religious tha... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Afghan Surrender

  

  The story begins 40 years ago with a Communist coup. The Soviets invaded to protect the new regime, while Muslims rose in revolt. We supported and armed them.... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Super Tuesday and American Democracy

  

  As Super Tuesday loomed, I hoped for a triumph of sanity — but feared its last stand. Thank you, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, tribunes of sanity who did th... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• American Nightmare — Sanders Versus Trump

  

  “American Nightmare” is The Economist’s latest cover story. This is an authoritative, extremely serious, sober publication, not given to hysteria. But this... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Inequality Really Worsening?

  

  Rising inequality is a fixture of left-wing polemics. Sanders harps on it. Lamenting a widening gap between the richest and the rest. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Democrat Drinks Some Trump Kool-Aid

  

  Karlyn Borysenko was a strong New Hampshire Democrat for 20 years. Considered Trump supporters all racist, “horrible (yes, even deplorable),” as is Trump... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• God and Meaning

  

  Core claims of religion are that God gives us morality, and gives our lives meaning. An essay by Daniel Farrell, in Louise Antony’s book Philosophers Without... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Broken Politics and Rule-of-law Augur U.S. Decline

  

  Trump boasts about the strong economy. What makes it strong? Certainly not his “policies,” like stupid trade wars, and curbing immigration, very harmful. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The End of Blogging?

  

  I started blogging in May 2008. It seemed cutting edge then. Now it seems passé.My wife blogged first, and encouraged me to do it, mainly to promote my book. Bu... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Insane War on Immigrants

  

  Six more countries, including Africa’s most populous, have been added to Trump’s travel ban. He has also slashed, again, our annual refugee ceiling, to just... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• When the Monster in the Nightmare is You

  

  Monsters are a staple of nightmares.Recently I dreamed I surreptitiously listened in to a phone call between my wife and our dentist. The hushed conversation wa... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pelosi Rips up Trump’s Speech

  

  I wouldn’t have done it. If only because Trumpers would exploit it. I’d have instead held a press conference (a long one) detailing all the outrageous lies in... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Senate’s Degradation, and America’s

  

  As a lad I got besotted with politics and political history. In particular, venerating the U.S. Senate, as the Olympian pinnacle of noble politics. I devoured... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Politics of Identity: Francis Fukuyama

  

  (Trigger warning: this piece may offend political correctness. The Humanist magazine’s editor wouldn’t publish it. It appears instead in the current issue of... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Vote for Sanders is a Vote for Trump

  

  Four years ago, Democrats nominated the one candidate Trump could beat. Will history repeat?Four years ago, I didn’t think my then-fellow Republicans would be... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Impeachment Facts

  

  Facts. Trump’s lawyers try to sound like they’re all about facts. My twenty years as an administrative law judge gave me tons of experience with lawyers twistin... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Religion Destroying India

  

  India is heralded as the world’s largest democracy. Proving that democracy is not just a luxury for rich nations. Some claim messy democracy is bad for... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Impeachment, Partisanship, and Defending the Indefensible

  

  Now it’s official: the Government Accountability Office (chief federal watchdog agency) has determined that Trump’s Ukraine aid shakedown broke the law. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY