Most solutions bandied about these days are top-down, quick-fix, authoritarian nonsense. Crime spiking? Hire more cops, build more prisons, pass tougher laws. Depression epidemic? Hand out SSRIs like candy or tell people to self-medicate with booze and TikTok. Anxiety through the roof? Remove every possible stressor, bubble-wrap the world,…
Lately, President Trump can’t seem to stop himself from making unwise comments about immigration. He reiterated his support for H-1B visas at the U.S.-Saudi Arabia Investment Forum last week, claiming it’s “MAGA” to bring in these foreign workers. “They just don’t understand,” Trump said of his supporters…
A friend just sent me the following clip from Stanley Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut, along with the question, “What was Kubrick trying to tell us?” WARNING: The clip contains adult language and themes. Viewer discretion advised. Funny that my friend should ask, because it’s a film (based on…
Public expressions of gratitude are de rigueur in America: “I’m grateful for the opportunity to…” is one of the first lines of any public pronouncement: to serve the public, to play on this professional sports team, and so on.In other words, giving thanks, as with many other virtues, has suffered from inflation…
Twenty years ago, there was no greater villain to the left than Dick Cheney. The vice president was called a fascist. He was called a warmonger. He was called Hitler. He was the center and soul of left-wing derision and Democratic identity. Their ire? The George W. Bush administration’s 2003 U.S. invasion of…
The question isn’t what we’re allowed to do, the question is what we allow to be done to us: with this phrase, singer Nena went viral during the coronavirus years. Yet, we humans seem to be remarkably passive, because we allow so much to happen to us. Our guest author…
Democrat Judge Cameron M Currie appointed by Bill Clinton protects James Comey and Leticia James from accountability by throwing out US Department of Justice’s cases against them on the false grounds that US Attorney Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed. I don’t know what the options are for the DOJ. Will…
Given the high visibility of the Israeli genocide being carried out in Gaza, for the first time many among the American general public are beginning to ask why a rich country like Israel should be getting billions of dollars from the United States taxpayer to pay for waging…
If the Trump administration decides to invade Venezuela, the backlash from the MAGA base will be so intense that the movement will implode. That’s what Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) recently predicted during an interview with a Libertarian publication. Paul told Reason’s Nick Gillespie last week that “If [President Donald Trump]…
The major political parties deploy escalating insanities on the road to oblivion. Days before Thanksgiving, when I must be like millions of Americans in just wanting to reach five days of permission to ignore the madness, the country is unraveling. Unlike most of us, who will look for ways…
