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

For those obsessed with having guns, the freedom to have a gun is seen as the quintessence of all freedom.  […]

 OVERVIEW: As a point of departure for any honest critique, it is in order to recognize the positive elements of […]

Scientifically, the Enlightenment was inaugurated by Copernicus and Newton…and culminated with the likes of Darwin and Maxwell.  Philosophically, the Enlightenment […]

Homophobia must be recognized for what it is: a kind of dysfunction that manifests as a self-righteous posturing. One is […]

That the quality of public discourse in the U.S. is abysmal is no news.  Yet it is worthwhile to pose […]

Here in America, we are ensconced in a bacchanal of media-candy.  A prodigious dose of viral memes (tailored to the […]

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

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

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