The Cruz Prototype (updated)
Unlike movies or television, print close-ups should have context. The intellectual appeal of print is the ease with which it shows connections and reasons missing in a visual world, because print can...
View ArticleStormy Monday, 10/14/13
Can Wall Street talk sense to Congressional Republicans? It’s a trick question, of course; nobody can talk sense to Congressional Republicans. Still, all eyes will be on the financial markets Monday as...
View ArticleTake Five (We Don’t Need Another Zero edition)
ONE: One Fling to Rule Them All… What’s more mawkish than Republicans rallying moistly and noisily around a new standard bearer? Absolutely nothing. While all but the most stalwart or blockheaded of...
View ArticleThe Culture and Politics of the Fact-Free Paradox
I never knew so many bad things would happen if I asked for and got a raise on the job. First, I would be told by everybody from HR (human resources) to our highest politicians in the Congress that I...
View ArticlePolitical Dynamics for 2014
We often forget the world is a dynamic place. Instead of embracing its splendor, our senses are blunted by our own inventions and appetites. We have forgotten how to think deeply and make change. We...
View ArticleStormy Monday, 5/26/14
After his invigorating Memorial Day weekend trip to Afghanistan, the President leaves the storied delights of Bagram Airfield behind for the shilling fields of DC. No wonder he’s planning to get out of...
View ArticleA Good Year for the Poses
The 2014 Values Voter Summit wrapped up Sunday in Washington, and Omni Shoreham Hotel staff must be working hard to expunge the building of the heavy stench of gunpowder and cliché. Like previous...
View ArticleIn US Politics, Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?
“Keep It Stupid” is the media meme for all of the announced Presidential campaigns. Hillary walks into a fast food operation in Maumee, Ohio and a Fox host calls it “Hispanic outreach.” (What...
View ArticleTed Cruz: Slip Sliding Away
It is one thing to be out of touch; it is another thing entirely to be losing your grip. When the touchstones of reality no longer guide your path, when the social milieu becomes a personal miasma,...
View ArticleStopping Conservatism
The debate over stopping Trump badly failed in its objective and in only the way that human actions are capable of, actually helped strengthen Trump’s breath and depth of support–the elite thinkers who...
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