Political ‘Tribalism’ in America and the Conversion Experience

Reader, I have a confession to make. In the year of (not my) Lord 2004, I apostasized from the faith of my fathers and, for the first and only time in my life, voted for the Republican presidential candidate. Incredible as it is to remember in 2021, that was the incumbent George W. Bush, reviled

Rittenhouse Walks, Bloodshed To Follow

Calling me a “degenerate jew,” an anonymous emailer gloated that they would send “Kyle” out to “take out the trash again.”

If Rittenhouse Walks, America Burns

The expected acquittals come on top of the movement that began last year, in Republican-dominated state legislatures, to legalize the vehicular murder of left-wing protestors.

What Comes After America?

Can we any longer avert mass bloodshed? I fear the answer to this question. Most Americans, unless they are actually immigrants from countries wracked by civil war, have no conception of what such a state of affairs would mean.

The Next Attack Will Come Without Warning

If a “political” Hamas or Hezbollah figure is no less a dangerous enemy to Israel than a ski-mask-wearing man holding a rocket-propelled grenade, so too is a Ted Cruz no less dangerous to American democracy than a Jake Angeli.

Is Love the Answer?

A new civil war would not be a replay of our first civil war, because whatever red-and-blue tiles or mosaics you may have seen, there is no way of geographically amputating “red” America; our future would look like present-day Syria or Iraq, with armed militias on every streetcorner and itchy-trigger-finger boys manning ubiquitous checkpoints.

The Dead Hand of the U.S. Constitution

The Constitution built in grave failures, moral and practical, from its very beginning, and has been completely and dangerously obsolete for three generations.

Does the United States Want To Survive?

The federal government barely considers those who nearly overthrew it, in a fascist coup attempt, to have committed a minor crime, and is granting them impunity so that they may rally others to their side and try again.

A National Reckoning?

Nobody likes to admit they were wrong, and professional politicians face career-ending cries of betrayal and hypocrisy if they do.

T Minus 48 Hours: The Forbidden City

There are millions of American fascists who are willing to openly brag about their support for an armed uprising to a stranger over the phone.