The Banality of Disinformation— Trump Seems To Be Using Orwell As A Manual The real news of the second Trump term is bad news— sometimes...

Trump’s America: Where Ignorance Is A Virtue & Knowledge Is An Enemy In 1965, straight out of high school, I wasn’t very “political” but...

In his Atlantic  column on Monday, The Death Of Government Expertise , Tom Nichols included an entertaining, albeit sick, line about...

The Spoils System Strikes Back— The Rise Of Autocracy According the the new Economist poll by YouGov 43% of registered voters approve...

Lights, Camera, Loyalty Trump sees himself as a TV producer and he picks his cabinet the same way he would pick his cast. I understand...

Do You Think An Undecided Voter Is An Idiot? At Least They're Not MAGAts When Fred Upton (R-MI) retired from Congress in 2023 he had been...

Politicians Are Playing With Fire Earlier, I exchanged tweets with Paul Meyers about the nature of MAGAtry. He noted that “The entire...

Songlands is the finale to John Feffer's dystopian trilogy Splinterlands and when I started reading this essay he wrote yesterday, I...