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• Health Care: Let Them Eat Cake

  

  Democrats long caricatured Republicans as the party of tax cuts for the rich and callousness toward everyone else. Now Republicans have been working mightily... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump and Russia

  

  This is a big deal. A very, very big deal.Thing 1 and Thing 2When Creepo Junior was offered campaign help from a representative of a hostile foreign... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Psychology Re Trump: Crime and Punishment

  

  This blog might seem to show a Trump obsession — “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But I have explained that this is not normal politics, it’s a discontinuity,... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Fix” — What is Real Leadership?

  

  Jonathan Tepperman’s book The Fix is prefaced with a quote: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• July 4, Part 2: An Americanism Booster Shot

  

  Every July 4 there’s a ceremony swearing in new citizens at Saratoga National Historical Park. Seeing one was kind of on my bucket list, and I decided this was... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• July 4: The Twitter Hymn of the Republic

  

  Mine eyes have seen vainglory in the president’s dumb tweets, He is trampling out the vintage of the grapes of wrath he eats, He hath loosed the feckless... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• We Are All Conspiracy Theorists

  

  Rob Brotherton’s Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories starts off saying it won’t be a book cataloguing and debunking them. Instead it aims to... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Gal in Amman (a Continuing Series)

  

  Our daughter Elizabeth soon starts (another) new job, in Amman, Jordan, as project development officer with Right to Play, a Canada-based organization. She’s... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Daily Show: Comedy News Versus Fake News

  

  I’ve written that while Trump complains about the media, and mainstream media is critical of him, it fails to convey just how insane this is. Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Truth, Decency, Responsibility, Sanity — I Am Now a Democrat

  

  On May 14 I renounced here my 53-year Republican affiliation. I said I couldn’t yet join the Democrats.But now the other shoe has dropped. As I’m fond of saying... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Cultural Appropriation” (A Trump-free Blog Post)

  

  A white author can’t write about a character who’s black.* A white artist cannot depict a black civil rights victim. And nobody’s allowed to argue otherwise. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Degradation

  

  It always made me sick when anti-Americans (like Noam Chomsky) would smear the U.S. on human rights. Perfect we’ve never been. Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Contribution to Our China Trade Deficit

  

  Our yearly trade deficit with China is around $340 billion and rising. That is, we import from China $340 billion worth of goods more than we export to China. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Let’s Recap

  

  The big story, according to Trump and his flacks, is his total vindication by Comey’s testimony that Trump was not under FBI investigation.This is fake news. A... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Michael Gerson on Trumpian Moral Obscenity

  

  Michael Gerson was George W. Bush’s chief speech writer and now writes for the Washington Post. A conservative Republican, he has unrelentingly called out... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Climate Speech — Full of Covfefe

  

  America first? Really? Who’d ever thought a U.S. president could make his Russian and Chinese counterparts appear better global citizens than us? Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Liberal Democracy Really No Better Than Communism?

  

  Naturally I endeavored to impart my worldview to my daughter. Most of my lifetime was dominated by the struggle between communism, which I considered a great... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Does Religion Cause Violence?

  

  A congressional candidate physically assaults a reporter — and gets elected. What the f— is happening to this country? And meantime atrocities are committed wit... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Trouble with Democracy

  

  Democracy has always been central to my political philosophy. For all other modes by which some person or group rules, one must ask: by what right? By what... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is to Be Done?

  

  Around January I wrote about some friends saying, “It’s worse than we expected,” and I said it’s not worse than I expected, because what I expected was very... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY