political philosophy

Freedom at its heart is the assumption that given freedom men and women will use it wisely.

We have to find a consensus that leads to fundamental change in our attitudes. The crisis which will force such...

So long as the most popular bloggers avoid the trappings of money and fame, so long as the readers of...

Think of what happened last year, when gas prices were $3/gallon. People drove less. They drove more slowly. They honestly...

The Nixon Thesis worked. It brought the Movement to power. In the form of Reaganism, that movement triumphed in its...

Change, and the need for change, continues to accelerate. I know there are people who complain about this. I am...

What is interesting to me is that the Democratic Party today seems to have two strains in it, the descendents...

Each generation faces a crisis that creates myths, and defines values, which determine power relationships. After the initial crisis, young...

It is absolutely certain that some catastrophe on a Katrina-like scale is going to hit, somewhere in this world, over...

Just as in Goldwater's time, Netroots Democrats have begun building a real infrastructure that can have that discussion. Since that...