by Eugene Darden Nicholas | May 1, 2017 | Politics
Part 1 – On The One Hand…. The phrase, “Make the world safe for Democracy,” Shakespearean in its ubiquity in America’s philosophical framework on foreign policy, sincere and cynical, wise and reckless, was President Woodrow Wilson’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 21, 2016 | Culture, Environment
A common and long-running theme among statist big thinkers is that people are having too many babies and thereby overtaxing the planet. We first heard such negativity from Thomas Malthus nearly 250 years ago, but have yet to witness the famine and resource depletion...
by Lee Maclin | Nov 21, 2016 | Opinion, Politics
I feel your pain. You came to this with what you thought were the best intentions, but you didn’t get what you wanted (I never get what I want). Now, you’re talking about moving to Canada or Spain, or seceding from the Union to live in the world’s sixth largest...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 13, 2016 | Opinion, Politics
Political campaigns, like advertising campaigns, can live and die with slogans, sound bites and catch-phrases. They also, increasingly, engage in battles over the meanings of particular words and phrases. Consider the argument over what Bernie Sanders’...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 11, 2016 | Election, Politics
The historic milestone election of Barack Obama eight years ago was not just about breaking the ultimate color barrier in America. It was the elevation of an almost messianic figure in the eyes of many. It was about starry-eyed “Hope and Change,” it was...
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