We’ve all heard it before, but let’s hear it again: At least half of all GOP voters sympathize with this Tea Party upsurge. They are overwhelmingly older, white, conservative-minded men and women who fear that “their...
Read MoreThomas Hobbes’s Leviathan argues that in a state of nature human nature is to be such that life is nasty, brutish, and short and that the corporate state (the Leviathan and Hobbes included the famous picture on the...
Read Moredriftglass imagines a post-apocalyptic future in which virtually all evidence of our present era has been destroyed and historians are left to study fragments of our media’s output, much of it distorted through something...
Read MoreWhether or not you think Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should strategically retire from the Supreme Court, her rationale for staying on the Court is worthy of discussion: “I think it’s going to be another Democratic President”...
Read MoreI guess I had an unusual childhood. I remember one time that I had a play-date at Morven, which was then the governor’s mansion in New Jersey, with one of the governor’s sons. I didn’t think there was anything...
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