Category: Articles

Despite its liberal reputation, academia is being flooded with right-wing money and ideologies. Published in Commondreams Oct 3, 2022 The notion that American institutions of higher learning are pervasively left-wing and endeavor to instill liberalism or socialism in their students is a conventional wisdom that has gone virtually unexamined since the student movement in the 1960s….

How conservatism extols rugged individualism while fashioning a mob of abject conformists. Published in Commondreams Setpember 03, 2022 Since time immemorial, the con artist’s sucker pitch to his targets has been the same. “You are special: you are savvier, more clear-sighted, more clued-in than the average clod, and because I like you so much, I’m gonna…

Republicans have made it politically impossible either to update statutes or shape social expectations to deal effectively with domestic terrorist threats. Published in Commondreams August 30, 2022 It garnered little notice, but New Zealand, half a world away from the events of January 6th, has designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization, making it “illegal…

Being mean and nasty to perceived enemies is all the GOP has to offer. Published in Commondreams July 26, 2022 Do you remember the incident during the 2016 campaign when Donald Trump mocked a reporter with a physical disability? The crowd of his supporters thought it was screamingly funny. Or the following year when he told an audience…

Nothing threatens American democracy more than the religious extremist factions teaming up with far-right fascist groups with guns. Published July 14 in CommonDreams (link to article) The Supreme Court’s disastrous rulings on prayer on public school property and abortion rights have finally focused proper attention on the role of religious extremism in undermining democratic self-rule. For…

More and more Americans will believe anything and everything—except facts, evidence, and logic. “And you know, you can tell these types of right wingers anything and they’ll believe it, except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become—it’s like showing Frankenstein’s monster fire. They become confused, and angry and highly volatile.” —Janeane Garofalo…