People Who Can't Thrive in a Free Society (VIDEO)
Why has the force of fascism arisen in America in recent times?Part of the answer is that people who are broken in some ways can’t avail themselves of the opportunities offered by a free society — e.g....
View ArticleThree Nations I Hate to See Going So Far Off Track
[This piece will be appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012 (the former — pre-redistricting --...
View ArticleDoes the United States Have So Little Influence on Israel?
What Israel has been doing with this Gaza war has done a lot of damage— not only to Gaza but ultimately to Israel as well. And also to President Biden.Biden’s immediate response to the Hamas Atrocities...
View ArticleHow Has Biden Done in the Realm of Foreign Policy? (VIDEO)
Here’s an account of Biden’s performance, with focus on Ukraine and Gaza crises. And it also leads into a larger picture of the situation in which we find ourselves, as the American electorate will...
View ArticleThe Profoundly Cynical Way the GOP Has Cultivated One-Issue Voters on...
The Republican Party has for years worked to keep Americans at each other’s throats. It’s all part of a Divide and Conquer strategy:whip people up with falsehoods and distortions to make them think...
View ArticleImagine This: The Republican-Appointed Supremes Seize Their Opportunity to...
I don’t buy what some critics of this “conservative” Court say, predicting the Court will keep Trump on the ballot because the Republican-appointed Justices are “pro-Trump.” Yes, they probably will...
View ArticleMy Short-Term Optimism, But Long-Term Realism
This piece is appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (the VA-06 of 2012, when I was the Democratic nominee for Congress.***********************************I know I...
View ArticleThe Deep Mystery of Trump Adoration (VIDEO)
Nothing I’ve seen in some 60 years of trying to understand the human world has been so surprising, and so revelatory of strange dimensions of (collective) human psychology.YouTube VideoFor more about...
View ArticleThe Problem of Technology Displacing People
[This piece is appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed/]*************************It’s an old story-- new technologies replacing the labor of people with well-developed and valuable skills.Over...
View ArticleTo Awaken the American People Between Now and Election Day (VIDEO)
The Democrats should be working hard now to fashion a messaging campaign to have the maximal achievable impact on the American electorate, getting as many Americans as possible to understand that the...
View ArticleA Man on a Mission (VIDEO): First in a Series
This wide-ranging discussion begins with something topical: the “political hit job” that Trumpy Special Prosecutor Hur did on President Biden. And it goes into the lamentable role that AG Merrick...
View ArticleThe Plutocracy's Con Job on Guns (VIDEO)-- A Man on a Mission (February 15,...
YouTube VideoThis episode of “A Man on a Mission” — in response to the mass shooting this past week in Kansas City, which turned a celebration into a time of terror -- begins with how the plutocratic...
View ArticleWise Use of Substances that Alter Experience
[This piece will be appearing as a newspaper op/ed this week.]****************************A question I sometimes ponder: would humankind be better off, or worse off, if alcoholic beverages had never...
View ArticleThe Politics of Falsehood
YouTube VideoThere are many ways of describing how extraordinary today’s Republican Party is — all of them disturbing. One of those ways is that — virtually across the board — this party is in the...
View ArticleOp/Ed Telling My Republican Neighbors, "Your Party Has Long Been Feeding You...
[This piece is appearing in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) where I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012, running under the slogan “Truth. For a...
View ArticleI Feel Sick About What the Supreme Court Just Did
I’m talking about how they’ve decided — for no good reason I can imagine — to help Donald Trump in his continuous effort to delay his trials, making it now increasingly possible that with respect to...
View ArticleWhy IVF and Abortion -- Both Very Different and Importantly the Same -- Have...
The connection between the Alabama determination that frozen embryos are “children,” and the “pro-life” assertion that abortion is “murder,” is obvious: it’s the religious belief that human life begins...
View ArticleHow to Defeat Those Corrupt Judges Trying to Help Trump Run Out the Clock
Some group of Supremes (presumably Republican-appointed) have revealed their blatantly partisan purposes by slow-walking Trump’s utterly meritless “presidential immunity” appeal — for no good reason —...
View ArticleA Puzzle and a Challenge Posed by Republican Primary Exit Polls
[This piece will be appearing shortly as an op/ed in newspapers in the congressional district (VA-06) where I ran for Congress as the Democratic nominee in 2012.)***********************************In...
View ArticleWhy Is Human Sexuality Beset by Complications? (VIDEO)
Three levels to an answer: complications arising from our being mammals;complications arising from our being the cultural animal, i.e. human;complications arising from our taking “the Fateful Step”...
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