Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published January 15, 2024 on Substack as satire. Everything below the line is as it was published on January 15, 2024 — one year before Donald Trump’s second inauguration.… Read More »Op-Ed: The Democrat Party Made Us Do This
January 11, 2024 — Next week, the Republican Party holds its first primary of the 2024 election in Iowa, and there’s no reason to believe anything will prevent the disgraced and traitorous ex-president from securing… Read More »Abraham Lincoln’s Take on Today’s Republican Cowards
January 5, 2024 — Over the past few years, I’ve been building the necessary infrastructure to successfully engage in the art (and con) of professional political punditry. Today, I’m proud to announce that the Sometimes… Read More »The Essential 2024 Newsletter
A century ago, The New York Times marked each Christmas Day by publishing Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler’s annual holiday message—an accomplishment among many in his distinguished public career. Despite this achievement and his good holiday… Read More »2023 Christmas Greeting
October 2023: I attend and observe Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement of a third party campaign.
March 26, 2023 — In 2023, despite his central role in American political and social life for eight years, there remains a lack of coherent understanding of the Cult of Trump. While willing to criticize Donald… Read More »The Cult of Trump
March 16, 2023 — The Intellectual Dark Web is a group of prominent commentators who oppose the so-called Woke Mind Virus which they believe propagates dangerous critical theories that threaten to destroy Western civilization. They decry identity politics and… Read More »The Questionable Intellect of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’
December 30, 2022 — We should acknowledge the history we have lived through in plain terms. In 2016, a far right populist was elected president despite losing the popular vote. He sought to withhold defense… Read More »Where we’ve been and the road ahead
December 20, 2022 — This year was a lot. So was last year. And the year before that. Living through history, we have all learned, is a lot. There is no doubt that Americans, along with… Read More »Combatting news fatigue and the importance of building community
