To be fair, the majority of Republican luminaries are anti-Putin and pro-Ukraine. But there is a vocal minority who support, enable, or apologize for the Russian strongman: the GOP’s Putin Wing (so-dubbed by Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.). This group includes… Continue Reading →
Adamant Moderation. So a while back I’m on Facebook (the Instagram of the middle-aged), and I see a comment from an acquaintance of a few decades past. We never were best buds but we were friendly. A third party had… Continue Reading →
“What did the president know and when did he stop knowing it.” (National Lampoon; Missing White House Tapes [LP record album]; 1974.) (Sen. Howard Baker Jr., R-Tenn., as paraphrased and channeled by a National Lampoon actor) Sen. Howard Baker We’re… Continue Reading →
Part of former President Trump’s charm is that his assault on the presidency and our collective sense of decency was so massive that each weekly or daily offense was buried in a mountain of malfeasance. Each was lost in his… Continue Reading →
[MAGA SUPPORTER:] “So President Biden picked this SCOTUS justice because of her color. How sad.” [ME:] “So the first 35 U.S. presidents picked the first 95 SCOTUS justices because of their color (and their gender). How sad.” The first African… Continue Reading →
Withdrawing support for Trumpism simply means you value American representative democracy, though imperfect, over encroaching autocracy. You value integrity and faculty, though fallible, over corruption, incompetence, and amorality. You value honesty, though never absolute, over inveterate mendacity. You believe that… Continue Reading →
My ninth grade social studies teacher, Gerry Eggen, was a fierce liberal in his late 20s. He had a strong passion for teaching and waking up junior high school minds. Even conservative classmates — among those few peers who hitherto… Continue Reading →
Belief vs. Knowledge What is belief? What distinguishes knowledge? What happens when people fail to differentiate between the two? We get the consecutive epistemic crises of a Trump presidency and the post-Trump disinformation universe. First let me give credit to… Continue Reading →
This is my last weekly commentary on the Trump presidency. (I will do one more piece for the book down the road: an epilogue tying up some Trumpian loose ends.) I can hear the cheers coming back at me through… Continue Reading →
It’s finally happening. In the wake of the Pro-Trump riots in Washington, D.C., last week, Republican lawmakers and luminaries are determining that maintaining support for Donald Trump is more costly to their careers, financial well-being, and country club standing than… Continue Reading →
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