It’s the Stupidity, Stupid: MAGA and American Anti-Intellectualism

Hofstadter wouldn’t be surprised at all by the persistence of anti-intellectualism in our own time. After all, these hostilities have been a force in American life for centuries.

They Won’t Have Nancy Pelosi To Kick Around Anymore

Sadly for the Party of Trump, vicious anti-Catholic bigotry is as extinct in America as the woolly mammoth; were it not, they would gladly seize on it to try to destroy the country’s second Catholic president.

Booby-Trapped House

McCarthy’s hangers on are supposedly confident he will still win their party’s nod for the speakership, which will quickly make him the unhappiest man alive.

Madame Speaker Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Whom the gods would destroy, they first elevate to Congressional Republican leadership.

No Power on Earth Can Save Democracy If the People Don’t Care

It’s not the Democratic Party that’s responsible for the yawning indifference of the American people to what we all saw unfold on January 6, 2021.

The Lowest Pit of MAGA Hell

These Ivy League-educated men, the lawless products of elite law schools, have adopted the demagogic habit, not just of railing at “elites,” but of cultivating virulent hatred for history, science, literature, or any other branch of knowledge or independence of mind that does not further their power grubbing.

Oh Goody, The ‘Competent Trump’ Is Here

DeSantis will be in an excellent position to step in when, as seems increasingly likely, Donald “Jesus” Trump is finally crucified on a cross of his own shoddy construction at the MAGA Calvary.

Who Are ‘They’? For a Hot Moment, I Was Almost One Myself

For a dizzy, bitter moment of my life, I was one of the army of lost American men who drink from the poisoned well of right-wing media.

Forced Population Transfers Spell the Start of America’s End

Forced population transfers have both historically and in the current period accompanied genocide around the world.

Stomp on the Tired, The Poor, the Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe Free

DeSantis got what he wanted, which was more free national attention and “red meat for the base” from this act of cruel deception against refugees as young as three years old.