What happens when a political party becomes demotic? Before answering the question, note that the word in question is not demonic, from the Greek word daimon, meaning a deity (remember that the Greek gods were […]
The last six or seven months have been a couple of tough seasons for public policies based on lies. Two examples come to mind. One is the Disinformation industry, which has eroded the credibility of […]
What went wrong with Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign? You can list many arguable mistakes, as you can with any campaign, and you can add, as some reporters have, that the candidate was not likable or […]
To explain the latest young generation’s pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February to lament “the fact that we’re living in a late-stage capitalist hellscape during […]
How’s America doing? Government statisticians provide mounds of data that provide useful clues, and none more so than the Census Bureau’s estimates of population, announced in the holiday weeks at the end of each calendar […]
Institutional rot. That’s the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic temperaments or alarmist analysis. One occasion for such judgments was the testimony of three […]
George Orwell, call your office. That’s my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration’s efforts to stamp out “misinformation.” It’s an interesting irony that covert censorship should be undertaken enthusiastically […]
Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history — Richard Nixon was the first — to win the Republican Party’s nomination for president three times? Many thoughtful observers, and others […]
The 2020s are starting to look like the 1930s, as I wrote last week in the wake of Hamas’ unprecedentedly vicious attack on Israel. Nations that embody, imperfectly but creditably in any historical perspective, representative […]
“The World Turned Upside Down.” That’s the song, or so longstanding legend would have it, that the British army band played after surrendering to American and French forces at Yorktown, 242 years ago. You can […]
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