
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bernie Sanders doesn’t have the support of the Democratic Party. If that wasn’t clear before, yesterday’s thorough beating at the polls by Joe Biden has made it clear. Crystal. The vision of […]
Four years ago, I was writing the same sorts of essays about Donald Trump’s wire to wire win in the Republican Primary that are being written about Bernie Sanders right now. There […]
I stopped writing about politics a few months ago. If you take the long view of things and incorporate enough history and objective thought into that sort of work you start to […]
My family has been in America a long time. My first descendant was a Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam in the 1630’s named Wyckoff. He was an indentured servant who rose to […]
Mass shootings are a systems problem; a problem that involves complex environments in which multiple inputs of varying degrees of dependency act together to produce some systemic outcome. And while we may […]
I came down to my kitchen yesterday morning and realized that I was running short on the lion’s mane, Scandinavian made mushroom coffee that I drink. I spoke a few words into […]
The curtain on the second act of the original American drama fell at Gettysburg. Four score and seven years earlier, the audience of history had been introduced to the cast of characters […]
One of the lessons learned from the 2016 presidential election is that of the dominant power of an asymmetrical actor in a crowded field of conformists. The larger the field and the […]