Of White Gods and Goddesses
During the civil rights days I hung around its periphery during undergraduate and law school, while a couple of my high school classmates (the year our school desegregated, 1963) actual worked for Dr King as summer hires. They made civil...
Hillary Clinton and Nuclear War by Incompetence and Indifference
(For the next three weeks I can find no profit in writing about anything except what possibly may be the peoples' last opportunity to express their choice for who should manage the affairs of our Nation....
Hillary Makes it Official, This is about Class, not Politics
Recently, Hillary Clinton gave her take on the Bernie Sanders voters, as being wide-eyed naifs still living in their parents' basement. Since conservatives have partaken of these kinds of jests about those kids for years, but for...
Don’t-Give-a-Damn’s as America’s Protected Religious Class
This is a chapter in my unfinished book, The Devil's History of the United States
I’ve often lamented the demise of public religious institutions, for that is an important part of the Foundation of the...
The Missing “Buckley-Factor” in Publius Decius Mus’ Historic Essay
If you haven't heard, a fellow (I assume) named Publius Decius Mus penned an anonymous, 10-page essay at the Claremont College website, entitled the "Flight 93 Election" It's a near-masterpiece, even historic. While I...
Wyatt Earp’s Justifications for Killing off the Cowboys
"For my handling of the situation at Tombstone, I have no regrets. Were it to be done over again, I would do exactly as I did at that time. If the outlaws and their friends and allies imagined that they could intimidate or exterminate...