America turned 154 years old today. There were few celebrations. There were few parades or fireworks. There was no national holiday. But America, the version we live in now, was born 154 […]
Happy Birthday America
Roy Moore is What Happens When No One Believes Anything
The incentive system in politics has a structural flaw. Our elected representatives are aptly named. They represent our values or our policy preferences. Hopefully both. Those representatives are people though; subject to […]
The Veteran’s Paradox
Dick Winters became a production supervisor at a plastics adhesive factory after the war. He eventually bought a farm and started a business selling animal feed in Pennsylvania. The books and movies […]
Thoughts and Prayers
I try not to write about gun violence. The gun violence won’t let me though. In the three years I’ve hosted this blog, I’ve written 200 essays, give or take. 11 of […]
The Cost of Low Standards
Lincoln stood on the East Portico of the Capitol in 1865 and told a country that had lost a half million of its sons to war in less than four years that […]
It’s Not Revolt. It’s Consolidation
The Republican Party isn’t fractured. It’s consolidating. The recent criticisms of the president and announcements that Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee won’t be seeking re-election do not […]
The Gap
There’s a space between what I once was and what I am now. When I ask others to travel it with me, they can’t. It’s not their fault. It’s just too far. About […]
