If people were to blame the fire department for the fire a group of arsonists had set, we may find […]

(Reflections On the Tea Party Phenomenon) It’s one thing to bite the hand that feeds you.  It’s quite another thing […]

AN ODD CASE OF IDOLATRY: The U.S. Constitution is no idol—so it is unwise to treat it as such.  It […]

A GUIDED TOUR   The bizarre-o-world in which unreconstructed right-wingers dwell is no more clearly illustrated than by the surreal […]

How do democratic movements go too far, and thus take an abrupt, drastic turn rightwards—thereby catapulting themselves into tyranny?  What […]

In an earlier essay, “Understanding The Right Wing”, I outlined the case that in order to vote for right-wing politicians, […]

It would be very easy to write a Tea Party speech.  The bombastic perorations and rhetorical flourishes have tremendous appeal […]

OVERVIEW: Surprisingly little scholarship has been done on the social phenomenon pejoratively dubbed “the right wing”.  This is odd if […]

The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal Winners GOLD: “Guns don’t kill people; PEOPLE kill people.” Mapping the logic used in […]

  “The conservative movement is primarily a means by which the wealth of rabid right-wingers is redistributed to celebrities.  Sometimes […]