On a call for censorship of a controversial book
A recent free-speech controversy centers on a book that challenges (at least in part--I haven't read the book) legitimizing trans surgery for minors, as opposed to adults. The author, Abigail…
Thoughts on going home again: are our resist-trumpism efforts an effort to restore a flawed past?
Soon after a recent, protracted political discussion that included a number of references to “going back to” some pre-election Eden, the following thoughts came to me—probably voiced elsewhere, but nothing…
Follow-up to recent venting about finger-pointing at progressives as responsible for disappointing down-ballot Democrat results.
I’m seeing more behavior like this. And it typically calls for watering down progressive demands—as if the watered-down versions are perfectly fine. Typically, though, they're made by people who aren’t…
More on my never-ending Quixotic quest to warn that all communication is manipulative, so that we need to be on alert when we hear and read (or ourselves speak and write).
Think about the mainstream press that we are encouraged to believe is reasonable. Its writers and its editorial policies have their own, often subtle, manipulative strategies (much of which we…
Varying characteristics of “ordinary” Trump supporters
Created for a late October, 2020, Zoom class, and based on a good deal of internet research, this short collection of slides summarizes some key factors that interested me about…