Author: populist

Pax Romana

…I grew up in a nation that had been born of the dream of freedom from foreign rule, from arbitrary despotism. It was a nation that penned the Declaration of Independence stating that all men had been created equal, with...

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What’s the Matter With Florida?

…Former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, a Democrat, said: “Democracy is government of, by and for the people. There is no more fundamental way in which people can directly participate than Florida’s citizen...

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Progressive Civil Disobedience

From Henry David Thoreau we must learn that we do not have to physically fight the government if we think it no longer gives us a trustworthy representative democracy, but instead not support it in ways that give it legitimacy...

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