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• 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

• I Renounce My Republicanism

  

  I have been a Republican for 53 years. I have served as an elected party official; have run campaigns and run for office as a Republican; was appointed by... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump – Comey – Russia

  

  “Russia” was the first thing I thought of when hearing that Trump had fired FBI Director Comey. (On the PBS Newshour, devoting its first half to the story,... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why So Many Blacks in Ads?

  

  One morning at breakfast I said to my wife, “Does T.J. Maxx especially cater to blacks?”“Not that I know of. Why?”“Well, they have a big ad in the paper... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Decline of Western Civilization and Its Values

  

  David Brooks is my favorite commentator writing today. I don’t always agree with him — too much religion — but in most ways his head’s screwed on right and his... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Michael Flynn — Lock Him up

  

  Are we trapped in a very bad movie — or grotesque reality show?Michael Flynn — whom President Pussygrabber said was treated very unfairly — after he himself... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Telling Tough Truths: J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy”

  

  J. D. Vance is a young Yale law graduate, who rose from what he calls Kentucky hillbilly culture. Hillbilly Elegy is memoir-cum-sociology, aptly titled; an eleg... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY