- October 27, 2017As language takes a beating from the president, a book about Churchill and Orwell reminds us how potent skilled rhetoric can be.
- August 26, 2017Trump's move Friday night shows the same disregard for the rule of law with which he’s trying to quash the Russia probe.
- June 23, 2017Many commentators are suggesting that both right and left are equally to blame for all the polarization between them. They’re wrong.
- May 3, 2017"Populism" does not equal neofascism — and in losing the distinction between "left" and "right," mainstream media makes a big mistake.
- March 29, 2017We are not barreling toward fascism. Fascism requires a program and unity of purpose.
- March 23, 2017The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental.
- March 20, 2017An overview of The Origins of Totalitarianism, by a German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt.
- March 15, 2017Timothy Snyder warns: History gives us a bunch of cases where democratic republics became authoritarian regimes.