America’s Other ‘Special Relationship’ Remains Worth Preserving
There is no convincing argument that the destabilized Israel sought by the Ilhan Omars and Rashida Tlaibs of the world would serve U.S. interests.
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‘Good Verse, Bad Verse, and Chaos’
We the People may not have thought much of Whitman, but I can think of no reason to treat their judgment as the last word.
Finding Yourself in an Expanding Universe, Reading Literature
A letter to Audrey Hall, eleven years old and the winner of the New York Public Library’s 2019 summer-reading essay contest.
Getting Snooty about Service Jobs
A response to Michael Brendan Dougherty on service jobs.
Head-Scratchers
There are things in the news that I find genuinely difficult to understand.
‘A Peculiarly Sanctimonious Nationalism’
From Game of Thrones to The Handmaid’s Tale, we cannot help but reimagine Christianity in a dystopian setting.
Hey, Let’s Invest In Some Subprime Mortgages!
Making the same mistake over and over again is stupidity. Being stupid with other people’s money over and over again is politics.
Decisions, Decisions
The polls at the moment have it Biden, Warren, Sanders, and Harris, or the nincompoop, the nag, the nut, and the nark.