political philosophy

If you want to win stand for something, and play offense. And if you want to know what politics is...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 48 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. Ever take...

Those who choose to live outside should be made to live there. That's the way power works.

Real journalism has to answer to the market. Astro-journalism needs only wingnut welfare to survive. It is entirely a creation...

Between the silence that enables and the confrontation that leads to violence there is a way to stop this nonsense....

Paradise never results from ideology, whether that ideology is religious, allegedly scientific, or frankly nationalistic. Everyone's paradise is different, most...

Violent rhetoric that is not confronted and put down inevitably escalates to actual violence. There is a history of this...

It was the marriage with populism that destroyed Democrats' chances between 1896 and 1932, so the strategy should be to...

President Obama must evolve, first into Nixon and then into Reagan. He must name the enemy, state clearly the new...

George W. Bush left America and the world broken. In the end he was James Buchanan. Either Barack Obama remakes...