America on the Edge of an Institutional Abyss
The Democrats succeeded only in exceeding a very low bar. The challenge for them is to figure out how to raise the bar and then succeed again. Continue Reading
The Democrats succeeded only in exceeding a very low bar. The challenge for them is to figure out how to raise the bar and then succeed again. Continue Reading
December 19, 2022One grift builds on the next. American society is saturated with this stuff. So much so that when the grand grifters come along, we are hard pressed to see the fraud within. Continue Reading
November 01, 2022There is some evidence that when essential governance is really threatened, Americans will awaken to protect and promote the governmental institutions required to confront existential problems and to ensure the minimum infrastructure and basic services at the core of desirable community life. Continue Reading
October 08, 2022With respect to confronting climate change, the real enemy is inconvenience. It is America’s antidote to caring. Continue Reading
August 21, 2022Since the US Supreme Court still has no code of ethics, it would seem that the justices are confident enough in each other that no one will tell or supremely confident that no one is watching. Continue Reading
July 11, 2022America seems so insecure today precisely because of the chaotic proliferation of firearms in civilian hands. Continue Reading
June 20, 2022In the face of the tyranny of a fading minority, the American majority is left to fight back with flawed institutions that have been delegitimized and undermined for decades. Continue Reading
May 31, 2022Ukraine may be about the US seeking to save Ukrainian democracy, but US democracy itself is in peril. Continue Reading
May 06, 2022America is not now, nor has it ever been, a democracy, says Larry Beck. Continue Reading
February 11, 2022The United States will never be better if no one forces it to be better. Continue Reading
January 04, 2022