Trump & Our Late Roman Moment
Hello from Limassol, a city on the south coast of Cyprus. I came here to do some research for my next book. I boarded the plane for Cyprus in Vienna…
Trump & Our Late Roman Moment
Hello from Limassol, a city on the south coast of Cyprus. I came here to do some research for my next book. I boarded the plane for Cyprus in Vienna…
Long LIV Golf
LIV Golf, the first serious challenge to the PGA’s monopoly on professional golf, has drawn the media’s ire for its Saudi investors. The firestorm has involved the same feigned hysteria…
The Meaning of the Raid on Mar-a-Lago
The Republicans are already fundraising off the late Monday surprise FBI raid on former president Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago. Democrats, for their part, are quick to gaslight: “No one
County Commissioner District 4 Endorsement
The Dalai Lama once said, “What’s past is past, we can’t change it, but we can learn from it.” As we consider which candidate to endorse in the Manatee County…
Meeting the China Threat
There are a few issues on which the American populist left and populist right agree. Perhaps the most prominent is their shared opposition to war and interventionism. Thought leaders and…
The Regime Wants Its Revenge
“The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president…
The Failure in Uvalde Was Societal
The needless tragedy that unfolded in Uvalde, Texas cannot and will not be stuffed into a convenient political narrative. It wasn’t about law enforcement ineptitude, though that was a factor.…
Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, and Fetal Personhood
The headline of a New York Times column last week posed a simple question: "Why Do We Talk About Miscarriage Differently From Abortion?" To me, and I suspect many of…
The Rise and Fall of Political Islam
In the fall, the war was always there, but we did not go there anymore. One supposes if Hemingway said it better—leave it at that. When news broke of the…
