People don’t talk about America the way I do very much anymore. The smart pessimists call me naïve. They tell me I ignore the truths about our past. Or that I’m the […]
The Obligation of Hope
Thoughts on Deplatforming
This week President Trump’s Twitter account was suspended. So I thought I’d share some thoughts. I’ll forgo the details of the events. Chances are if you’re reading this, you know them already. So, […]
The Sixth of January
I’m going to start where I began this whole journey. I grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the time when Donald Trump owned half of the city’s casinos. And what […]
Questions for January 21st
Three thoughts keep converging on me when I think about what awaits American politics in the near future to be described simply as after January 20, 2021. They don’t provide answers but […]
The Rules of the Game
It’s 4thdown and 20 and the Home Team Coach decides to go for it. He’s a new Coach who’s never coached in the pros. But he got the job because he was […]
Red Pill Overdose
I was raised in the Catholic Church. I went to Catholic school. Like most young children I believed what I told to believe. Until I didn’t any more. As I grew older […]
Morning in America
It’s over. Over next few months and years there will be some debate about exactly what ended today. One thing is certain though. Barring government collapse or fantastical revelations of systemic conspiracy, […]
Forward From Here
We are neither wolves nor sheep. We are the great upright making ape. And what has separated us from every living creature on this planet is cooperation at complexity and scale the world has never seen.
Review: History Has Begun, The Birth of A New America by Bruno Macaes
Tocqueville wrote of an America in its infancy. And he was wrong. His assessment of America in adulthood is as it could only have been when it was written; one of many […]
COVID-19 and The Case for State Capacity
As the emails go out from the school district where I live that schools are closing, I can’t help but wonder if there is, or ever will be, a stronger case for […]