PinnedThese Are My Very Best Articles on Medium. You’re Welcome.I’m away on business in another realm, enjoy these until I return… — The Future of the American Party System Throughout American history there have been several so-called “realignment elections.” If it turns out this was what happened in 2020, then what’s the status of our current party system? READ: Maybe This Election Gave Us a Three-Party System After All The Future of…Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Feb 28, 2022Member-onlyI Am Watching My Liberal Friends Spin Off Into SpaceI love them, but where they’re going I cannot follow — Ever since graduating with a master’s degree in English, I’ve been following a transgender man I met in my program on Facebook — let’s call him Max. Max is a good writer. He’s got a quick mind, and he’s now a full professor of English. His students love him. But…Politics12 min readPolitics12 min read
Feb 21, 2022Member-onlyStop Bitching About the Police and Become a Police OfficerBe the change you want to see in the world — Anyone hanging around Washington, DC, in the early 2000s would probably recognize the “Stop Bitching, Start a Revolution” slogan on t-shirts and bumper stickers. It was a slogan made locally famous by the Zendik Arts Collective in West Virginia, an intentional community with a history of drug use and sexual…Politics8 min readPolitics8 min read
Feb 14, 2022Member-onlyI Don’t Want America to Become a Failed State(And neither do you) — If the lucrative success of the Purge film and television franchise is any indication, the American psyche is dangerously diseased. If you don’t already know, the Purge is set in a near-future America where the government has established an annual ritual that allows people to commit any crimes they want…Culture10 min readCulture10 min read
Feb 7, 2022Member-onlyHow Democrats Will Get Cornered in the 2022 MidtermsAnd how they can fight back — “What happened last night in [Anytown, USA] is categorically different from what Republicans did last year, which was, when their candidate lost the election, they tried to overthrow the U.S. government.” At this point the Democrat’s playbook for the 2022 midterm election is obvious. (So is the Republican playbook, as…Politics7 min readPolitics7 min read
Jan 31, 2022Member-onlyThis Might Be a Good Time to Find Out If You’re a Russian AssetThey’re attacking America. Are you helping? — I would like to begin by putting Russian espionage aside for the moment and writing about Star Wars — a much more vivid and populist way to break some very unpleasant news to you. In the controversial George Lucas prequel movies that came out starting in the late 90s, we’re…Politics8 min readPolitics8 min read
Jan 24, 2022Member-onlyThe Radical Right Will Get Everything It Wants Unless…This might sound like an extreme reaction, but I assure you it’s not — Some left-wing writers — especially now that Republican Glenn Youngkin has managed to win the Virginia governorship without having to clearly embrace Donald Trump — have been pointing out that it will be a joy to have “the Don” campaign for president again because it will surely help the Democrats. …Politics10 min readPolitics10 min read
Published in Politically Speaking·Dec 1, 2021Member-onlyLiberals Can Solve the Incel Problem — Here’s How2021 was another banner year for social justice warriors around the world — Dear Fellow Liberal: It looks like 2021 was another banner year for social justice warriors around the world. Yeehaw! Before getting into our agenda for the coming year, however, I’d like to review last year’s victories as well as describe our current efforts. To recap, last year during the 2020…Politics7 min readPolitics7 min read
Nov 8, 2021Member-onlyWould You Rather Drive a “Damaged” Car or a “Broken” One?There’s no right answer, but one means you’re reasonable and the other means you’re a fool. — You might have already heard this one, but there’s an old anecdote about a police officer pulling over a guy for running a stop sign. “You see that sign?” the officer says, pointing with his clipboard. “That means you need to stop.” “But officer,” the guy objects, “I slowed down…Politics7 min readPolitics7 min read
Published in Politically Speaking·Sep 21, 2021Member-only“Like History Repeating… but on Steroids.”Our exit from Kabul was nothing like the fall of Saigon. It was actually much worse. — Yesterday I found myself in the uncomfortable position of having to explain to a Baby Boomer — a man nearly twice my age who was spending his retirement whiling away his hours with a whiskey in one hand and a mystery novel in the other — why his understanding of…Politics7 min readPolitics7 min read
