I don’t know what a “blue wave” is, beyond a campaign rallying cry turned into a subjective term by which talking heads felt compelled to evaluate the 2018 mid-terms. An election, by […]
What Did We Learn?
What’s at Stake
In the summer of 1989, two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, political scientist Francis Fukuyama penned the essay, The End of History? In it, he pondered the meaning of the […]
Voters Guide for The Rational
The election is on Tuesday. If you’re like most voters, as I am, you haven’t really had time to dig down into the details of everything on the ballot and perhaps you’re […]
Once More Unto The Breach…
In October of 2008, Alan Greenspan, once the most powerful man in the most powerful sector in the most powerful country in the world, stood before congress with the wreckage of 34 […]
On My Experience With Domestic Terror
I originally wrote this as a Twitter thread a few minutes after the news of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh broke this morning. I thought there was […]
Identity Politics and Immigration
I am pro immigration. I wrote a chapter in my book about immigration being a consistent political boogeyman throughout American history. I wrote an article in Playboy (yes they really have articles) […]
Duncan Hunter and American Political Decay
We have clear founding principles in America. We adhere to a belief of equality of opportunity, equal representation under the law and freedom of choice. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, […]
Stupid and In Charge: The Anti-Fragile Experience of the Junior Officer
I recently finished reading Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. The title and sub get you […]
An Essay About Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga
It can’t be all politics and economics. There’s just not enough blood in it. There’s more than there used to be, for sure. But not the right kind. So, from time to […]
One Way Out
There’s a quote from Washington’s farewell address that’s liberally applied when vilifying political parties in contemporary America. “…they (parties) are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, […]
