Trump

An old friend and I are having a friendly argument about how many people still give a damn. He thinks about 30% still care. I said it’s become more like…

As dawn broke in the east, the moon, emerging from eclipse, neared the western horizon. Across the surface of our perpetual celestial partner was etched the sharp shadow of a…

All news contains an implicit interpretation of the world—a worldview. And worldviews, however accurate, are essentially constructed, made up. In this sense, all news is “fake news.”

World News – Russia’s Olympic Committee was banned from the PyeongChang Olympics due to the nation’s doping scandal, but individual Russian athletes will be invited to compete at the Winter Games…

“It’s now time to start moving American dependents out of South Korea,” Senator Lindsay Graham says. The drums of war beat louder each week, but Americans are too willfully deaf…

Reflecting on the unlikely concatenation that produced the Russian Revolution, Simon Sebag Montefiore says, “Without the Russian Revolution of 1917…the tournaments of power would likely have been just as vicious—just…

The notion that thinking together implies conformity and groupthink is as wrongheaded as the idea that conflict, argumentation and resistance are the wellspring of creativity.

A collision between the partisan hopes of the left and the nationalistic delusions of the right is intensifying in the United States. Which will prevail, the Constitution, or authoritarianism?