Land of the ‘Free,’ Home of the Mass Grave

DeSantis’s policies have killed almost 10,000 people in Florida, even over the (already lousy) national average.

Memorial Day, in the Midst of America’s Great Dying

In America today, we are in the midst of a Great Dying that I fear is only in its earliest stages, yet this indisputable fact is half-suppressed in public awareness.

A New Age of Infectious Disease

America in twenty or thirty years may look quite a bit like Russia today, a bankrupt, pariah nation with an impoverished, sick population of addicts that no one else would care about, except for its powerful, destructive, but incompetently led military and its clutch of nuclear weapons.

Reminders of Mortality

The coronavirus doesn’t care how “good” you’ve been.

The Sleep of Reason

Thousands of protesters from across the country — including some of the biggest names in the anti-vaccination movement — descended on the nation’s capital Sunday for a rally against vaccine mandates. Almost two years into a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 860,000 Americans…—The Washington Post, Sunday, January 23, 2022 We made a terrible mistake, long ago.

A Curse Upon the Supreme Cowards Who Spread Disease and Death

Why wouldn’t the brave defender of the freedom to infect and the liberty to spread suffering and death be proud to sign his or her name to this manifesto?

The Gerbils Who Did Their Own Research: An American Fable

Once upon a time, there was a chicken hawk called Howard who was tired of hunting teeny-weeny wild gerbils out in the badlands. You spend all morning spiraling upward on a thermal updraft, displaying excellent form, just to swoop down on an unsuspecting rodent, but quicker than lickety-split, that slick nitwit scampers away, and you’re

The Inner Lives of Americans

The title of this post is something of a trick: if the pandemic has revealed anything about Americans, it is that all too many of us are utterly empty inside. When a true crisis came, we had no inner resources to drawn on. Viewed in this light, all of the maddening and terrifying social phenomena

In a Land Where Death Walks Everywhere, Guard and Rejoice in Life

How do you express what it feels like at the dawn of the year 2022 in America, which seems to be a dying society, without counseling fatalism and despair? Those of us who refuse to succumb to the madness must reaffirm our devotion to life, in defiance of the morbid symptoms all around us. There

The Fox News Foxes and the Grapes: An American Fable

Luckily, King Very Stable Genius was as renowned for his piety as for his brilliance.