Month: January 2015

Our newly minted Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the following in the course of making some prepared remarks, yesterday. “Let’s pass legislation that focuses on jobs and the real concerns of the Middle...

At this point it really should be better understood, but isn’t, that the only thing that gives meaning to David Brook’s life is inspiring a warm tingling desire in philosophy majors to commit a public act of...

I guess it was back in the mid-nineties, before all that impeachment nonsense, when it first began to dawn on me that the Republican Party was really just an unbelievably malevolent force that never said what it meant and whose...

Of course it’s not a “Clash of Civilizations.” No, no … it’s not blow-back for our participation in America’s War on Terror in Iraq. No, the colonial past of Western Europe in North Africa and...

Today, we are all Charlie Hebdo. Anyone, anywhere, who expresses their opinions in the public square was attacked today when Muslim militants burst into the Paris offices of a venerable satirical magazine and gunned down the...