I 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…

Be 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…

(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…

And 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. …

They’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…

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. …

2021 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…

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…

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…