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Category Archives: America
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of America’s Dissident Right Now
Dissident right leaders believe their movement represents a genuine intellectual insurgency against the failures of mainstream conservatism rather than primarily a coalition of people whose shared characteristic is that they have been excluded from or rejected by mainstream conservative institutions … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For American Leaders In Religious Freedom
Religious freedom leaders believe their legal and advocacy work defends the foundational American principle that government cannot compel citizens to violate their sincere religious beliefs rather than primarily serving as the most recent iteration of a recurring pattern in which … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Trump Haters In America Today
Donald Trump is a unique and unprecedented threat to American democracy rather than an extreme expression of tendencies, executive overreach, norm violation, and institutional capture, that preceded him, that his opponents practiced in milder forms, and that the system’s structural … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Trump Lovers In America Today
Donald Trump is a political outsider fighting the establishment on behalf of ordinary Americans rather than a wealthy celebrity who spent decades cultivating relationships with the same political, media, and financial elites he now claims to oppose, whose policy record … Continue reading
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Democracy in America
I respect Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America for its stories. I respect how it serves academic status claims and fetish games. I respect that this book by a French aristocrat flatters intellectuals and that they love playing with it … Continue reading
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Americans Don’t Care About The Middle East
The most durable finding in American political science is that foreign policy rarely drives elections. Voters care about prices, jobs, crime, and whether their children can afford a house. Wars and alliances live at the periphery of electoral math except … Continue reading
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Alliance Theory and the Israel Lobby War in the United States
The pro-Israel and anti-Israel lobbies in the United States do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Jewish Safety, Defending Democracy, Fighting Genocide, Decolonization, or responsibility for sustaining either an ironclad alliance … Continue reading
Applying My Favorite Tools To The Hottest Issues Of The Day
Get them while they’re hot! Don’t burn your eyes. Please use this information responsibly. This telecast is copyrighted by Fordy University for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts … Continue reading
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The Fictions We Live By
“Social life depends on these kinds of shared fictions. When an agreed-upon story appears, people often accept it even when they have doubts.” (Rob K. Henderson) American social life runs on stories that are treated as real enough to organize … Continue reading
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NYT: Why Are So Many Democratic Politicians So Far Out of Touch?
Thomas B. Edsall writes in the New York Times: In January 2025, when the U.S. House took up legislation to bar trans women’s participation on women’s sports teams, all but two Democratic representatives — Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez — … Continue reading
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