political philosophy

The industry, or industries, that provide the most added-value to each generation controls our politics. What they do, in their...

Trump’s trade war is going to do to American workers what Bush’s Iraq war did to thousands of American families....

Those who would use my tolerance to impose their intolerance must be resisted. That’s true for everyone until the war...

What the Republican party is left with is the investing class, the religious right, militarists, racists and “deplorables,” what the...

Trumpism, and that brand of conservativism, must become as anathema as Nazism became for Germans after World War II.

It is time for a radical re-think of how government works, of how liberty can be expanded but also ordered,...

What about the 43% who still love them some Trump?

It’s a policy tsunami, a complete reorganization of over one-sixth of the economy.

The conflict now starting in Turkey and Iran looks like a winner to many American analysts. It’s a loser. Trump...

Freedom isn’t free. It’s the most expensive type of governing there is, because it demands so much from the governed....