Voting: Ballots Past, Present, and Absent
If we end up governed by cronies and relatives, it is because we put them there. Maybe we should have stood in line.
Magazine: Magazine
James Bond, in Literature & Cinema: A Retrospective
There has never been a Bond film that wasn’t at least moderately popular. What is it they say about 007? Nobody does it better.
‘Conservative’: A Term Up for Grabs
To die, and not to die, for a word.
Debt, Deficits, and the Donald
With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?
The COVID Election
Trump’s failure to lead exacted a political cost even if it did not cost him the election.
Pronouns Go Political
A review of What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She, by Dennis Baron.
The Promise and Peril of Trump’s Cultural Politics
His policies, if not his personality, offer lessons to Republicans.
The Democrats’ Shortfalls in Congressional Elections
In the House and the Senate, the blue wave did not go as planned.
Friends and Letters
A review of Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis, by Gina Dalfonzo.
The Democrats’ Texas Blues
Republicans remain safe in the Lone Star State.