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If the jockocracy thinks Republicans have lost their minds, it's because they have.

Some 40 years ago, the democracy of FDR faced the same kind of crisis, and had the same kind of...

What was needed, at all these times, were new political myths, new values, in order to create a new meaning...

It's the biggest lie of the 20th century. Bigger than any whopper told by Hitler, or Stalin, or Mao Zedong....

Publishers determine the politics of media, and publishers have, historically, been very conservative. Medill was a right-winger. The Chandler family...

Remember, we're looking for a seminal artist (doesn't have to be a singer) who was wildly popular at the start...

I recommend the whole of Prof. Cole's piece today, not just to readers but especially to writers, and most especially...

Is a "Great Depression" around the corner? Maybe not, but something very like it is already enveloping all of us....

It's at these times that a flick like King Arthur appeals. It may take 1,000 years. We may all pass...

It's the faltering-and-failing bit that today's Republicans don't get. It is this, more than anything else, we should fight to...