Tobacky and/or Wacky Tobacky
There are two basic approaches for regulating psychoactive drugs.
Slavery in the South and in the Empire
One can easily imagine that slaveholders in the American South would have been more inclined to rebel than their British-colonial counterparts whether the American Revolution had happened or not
A Touchscreen Is Not a Dashboard; a Knob Is Not a Gear Shift
Do the people who design cars nowadays bother to drive them?
It’s Okay to Be a Partisan Recusant
It would be better if partisan politics were less of a team sport.
Contact-Tracing Trump’s Auto-Coup Attempt
I don’t vote for people who try to steal elections, their enablers or defenders, or their enablers’ and defenders’ enablers and defenders.
Dear Mr. Rushdie
Home is both a place and an ideal, a thing and a dream, the loss of and quest for which is the oldest story in the world.
Fight Club Conservatives, Gangster Government, and the Rule of Law
How can we tell when the law is impartial?
Farewell to Free Speech, Say Florida Republicans
It will be interesting to see whether cheerleaders of Florida’s vengeance continue to speak of ‘conscience rights.’
Belated 1/6-Anniversary Thoughts, with Mountain Lions
The dangers that culminated in the insurrectionary Capitol riot are not behind us.