What Fascism Is and What It Is Not
No word has been more brazenly and irresponsibly weaponized and diluted by the social justice movement than fascism. Fascism has been discussed in countless op-eds, traded as an insult in…
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Populism: A Parasitic Ideology
Dejected by recent political defeats, some people in both the UK and the US have been calling for an alliance between right-wing and left-wing populists. These demands rest on a…
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What Can We Learn from the Trump Years?
Trump is the embodiment of American excess: pure anti-intellectualism, self-congratulation and wealth. His obsessive need to see more of himself in the world has committed him to imprinting his name…
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The Downfall of a Would-Be Authoritarian
Wednesday, 6 January saw a dramatic tipping point in Donald Trump’s ongoing crusade to assuage his personal grievances by overturning the results of November’s election. Members of his own party…
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The Bipartisan Decay of American Culture
Protesters in Wisconsin torched the inventory of a used car lot, destroyed a municipal truck and smashed the doors and windows of a public library, to protest the death of…
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It Is Trump’s Executive Order that Is Censorship—Not Twitter’s Policies
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects internet service providers and online media hosts from legal liability for user comments. Donald Trump is trying to undermine that.
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Donald Trump and The Imbalance of COVID-19 Accountability
On the very day that the media rightly slammed President Trump for his claims to “Total Authority,” many in the press continued their now month-long run of stories condemning him…
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Injustice Is Also Blind
As the United States braces for the highest point on the epidemiological curve in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the ensuing human and economic costs, many of us are attempting…
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Donald Trump Is a Liar, but He’s Not a Hypocrite
A liar says x is true when she knows x is false or vice versa. A hypocrite casts shame and expresses intense moral condemnation about people for engaging in behavior…
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The President Believes In Nothing
If you can’t understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. —Jordan B.…
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Impeachment: Can We Trust Mental Health Experts Who Claim that Trump is Mentally Ill?
The words used to describe Donald Trump include businessman, narcissist, liar, racist, sexist, reality TV star and president of the United States. Trump has stirred up a lot of controversy…
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The Illegitimate President: Donald Trump and the Faking of Democracy
Men, not Laws The United States of America proudly hails no more cherished old saw of its historic political achievement than that it is a nation “of laws and not…
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Christopher Hitchens’ Defense of the Enlightenment
Christopher Hitchens is my favorite writer. His books probably made up around 80% of my high school reading diet. I devoured everything he published, from his autobiography to his studies…
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The Growth of Mainstream Conservative Conspiracy Theories
The tragedy is that whatever salient truth American conservatism holds is fast becoming utterly lost in this wave of fanatical populist fervor.
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Why I’m a Liberal Who Fights the Left, Even in the Age of Trump
This is an argument about how to defeat the lunatic right by criticizing the lunatic left.
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The Anatomy of Fascism
“It would be so much easier for us,” wrote Umberto Eco in his 1995 essay Eternal Fascism “if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, ‘I want to reopen Auschwitz,…
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Donald Trump and The “Partisan Divide”: A Senseless Account of American Discord
You can always count on it in the United States. Political fervor and dispute reach a fever pitch. The rancor, though rarely quite as now, seems it will split the…
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Eternal Trump Supporters: Gold Medal Winners in Mental Gymnastics
Donald Trump’s brand of populism carries with it a deeply ingrained aversion to unpleasant information; the President will sound the war cry FAKE NEWS across social media as a casual…
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