Politics & Power

Constitution Day

A reflection on Constitution as regime, by the late Wilson Carey McWilliams

Saul Sung True

From The American Conservative, Reason's Jesse Walker on Nicholas von Hoffman's Saul Alinsky.

Reflections on 9/11

Is being an American worth it?

Rev. Jones and the Bonfire of his Vanity

Can modern Islam countenance freedom of religion and expression? This is one of the great questions of our time.

Democracy as Spectacle: The Messianic Compulsions of our Republic

Americans do not need a Messiah because this nation is not Heaven on Earth.

Neo-Feudalism and the Invisible Fist

So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?

Your Huddled Masses, Yearning To Make Par

I people really want to see the current state of the union, they need to take a look at my favorite part of Liberty State Park, which is the fact that it recently has been bisected – rent in two – by the Liberty National Golf Course.

No Flipping

But not to be missed in this story is the recognition that no matter how much the government wants to empower and affirm everyone equally, you cannot fool the American sports fan.

Islam and America: The President’s Fictitious History

It is characteristic of the tyrant, however, that he thinks he can get away with lies in the sense that no one will contradict them even when his statements are transparently untrue.
Urakami Cathedral

Civilization & The Sacred

Civilization rests upon the sacred. Thus it is as grimly appropriate that the first atom bomb test was sacrilegiously codenamed “Trinity” – as in *the* Trinity – as it is that the Fat Man made an almost direct hit upon Urakami Cathedral, the most sacred spot in Nagasaki.