How this ruling takes America’s women back to the 18th century — In his written opinion in Dobbs (full text here), Justice Alito’s pseudo-legal “scholarship” is outrageous. He first claims the absence of the term ‘abortion’ in the Constitution. He then conducts a mock search for references to legal abortion in the history and traditions of the United States. …

January 6th, confirmation bias, and the fear of being proved wrong — Watching the televised hearing from the Select Committee Investigating January 6th last night rekindled the horror of that infamous day. Chairman Bennie Thompson and Vice-Chair Liz Cheney presented a compelling narrative of the events and, more importantly, the long lead-up to how it happened. …

Some thoughts on the framers, the Constitution, and the 2nd Amendment — It occurs to me that the United States of America originated from a few basic ideas championed and pitched by a handful of white men two-thirds through the Eighteenth Century. Their notions of political philosophy informed their notions of value, which concepts had themselves been shaped by their readings in…

Thank you for freeing our speech, Uncle Elon — Let’s start with some perspective. Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter purchase is the equivalent of $133 million for each of America’s approximately 330 million citizens. Feel free to check my math. Why did I break out the purchase in those terms, and why should it matter to you? Because none…

Move over, Elon… — As a burgeoning writer, albeit too late in life, I should have the sense and courtesy to recognize that when my daily urge is to write about the importance of truth — it’s already game over. This is an argument that should not need a champion. But it does… The…

Each day of inaction forfeits more of the moral high ground — The US and NATO response to Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine looks more like Bystander Effect than it does principled foreign policy. Each Allied countries’ strong rhetoric is insufficient as their inaction to effect any change on the ground that will stop Putin’s slaughter and save innocent lives. Psychologists have…

Or, How Much Do Ukrainian Lives Matter? — Some things are mutually exclusive. They cancel each other out. Here are two such propositions. 1- It is better to live in fear of nuclear destruction than to be destroyed. 2- It is better to be killed than to live in fear. These two propositions cannot co-exist and be simultaneously…

… is what is at stake in Ukraine — The discovery of what is important to live for can be achieved by the process of elimination. Ask yourself what you’re willing to die for, or alternately, under what conditions and circumstances would you rather be dead than alive? …

They’re both going to attack you, it’s just a matter of when… — In the complicated, interconnected web of international finance and investment, it turns out that Western capital ofttimes ends up funding its enemies. In this way, it’s like feeding a feral dog, hoping to domesticate it, or at least that if it bites someone, it won’t be you. …