How can you bridge deep divisions over the role of the state?
Recovering from both a wedding and the stomach flue while awaiting an overdue flight at San Francisco International Airport (and if you’re ever stuck in Terminal 1 at SFO, allow me to recommend Go...
View ArticleIs post-partisanship just amoral or outright sociopathic?
There’s a certain hankering in American political culture for governing stripped of arguments and ideology, and dedicated to just getting things done. Of course, that overlooks important questions...
View ArticleOut of Left Field
I know what you were thinking. You were saying to yourself, “Hmm, self, it’s been a while since any of my progressive friends have proposed anything insanely totalitarian. They’ve maybe been a little...
View ArticlePower brokers must love the street theater
Sigh. If nothing else, the Occupy Wall Street protests provide (yet another) reminder that the political “Left” can be just as incoherent, unrealistic and authoritarian as the political “Right.”...
View ArticleCivil liberties are too precious to waste on enemies
Among the things that make rights — in particular, that basket of rights commonly referred to as “civil liberties” — actual rights as opposed to privileges, is that they are inviolable and universal....
View ArticleGenetics may make political arguments unwinnable
If you and I entertain such inherently different preferences about the sort of society in which we want to live that common ground is limited, can expansive, top-down policy-making ever be anything...
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In Defense of ‘Seditious Traitors’
The Siege (1998) Not long ago, a poll by the British outfit YouGov purported to demonstrate that roughly a third of Americans could imagine a scenario under which they would support a military coup...
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1-in-4 Americans See Government as the Enemy. Hold on For a Wild Ride.
Polling firms have established a decades-long tradition of asking Americans about their fading trust in government and then recording the pathetically low scores. There’s a strongly partisan element to...
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Dear Trumpkins and Clintonistas, Your Candidates Are Evil
Corrupt-ilicious or tyrant-tastic? As I write these words, the FBI is reportedly investigating, after an aborted earlier attempt, Hillary Clinton’s use of the Clinton Foundation to, essentially, peddle...
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Why Arrest Your Opponents When You Can Ban Their Fun?
Is this the embodiment of evil? / Photo by Amanda Furrer Maryland officials have suddenly discovered a crying need to ban spear hunting and restrict air guns (cuz you’ll shoot your eye out, I guess, or...
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