Defiantly Daft, Duplicitously Dangerous
No one ever accused John Wayne of being an intellectual. From Daniel Boone and Wyatt Earp to Huey Long and George Wallace, there has always been a strong populist strain woven throughout our national mythology. Forget for a moment that any list of great Americans, from Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Frederick Douglass, contained a multitude of brilliant intellectuals.
The Return Of The Local Newspaper
The path to reclaiming power over information and securing democracy When I was a kid, there were these extraordinary chronicles of daily life called newspapers, sold on nearly every street corner, delivered to homes and businesses, read on trains, and shared among strangers in coffee shops. They were magical to behold, and entirely ephemeral. Capable […]
Then They Came For Me
America’s Dual State We’re all familiar with the boiling frog analogy, and its application to a society that is oblivious to the crisis that is threatening to devour them. Yet somehow, we find ourselves at a loss to explain why some of us seem to be living in a state of existential dread, while the […]
Stand Your Ground
Where there is injustice, I always believe in fighting. Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) In the fight against fascism, we must face our fears and stand firm in our beliefs It’s only a matter of time before a licensed gun owner shoots and kills a federal agent, doing so in clear self-defense, because the agent is […]
The Second American Civil War Has Begun
The Trump administration has crossed the Rubicon of authoritarianism and turned true patriots into enemies of the state America is deeply divided. This is the phrase we’ve been using for years now. We’re deeply divided as a people and as a nation. The culture war that began as an unsubstantiated bit of fiction has been […]