Stung by the uproar caused by pictures of immigrant children separated from their parents by Federal authorities at the border and detained in gulag-like conditions, President Trump today pretended to walk back the “zero tolerance” policy announced by… more »

@RadioFreeTom :  Author, Professor at @NavalWarCollege & @HarvardEXT. Former Senate aide. Cat guy. Curmudgeon. Views my own. Tom Nichols is a favorite source of mine for thought-provoking ideas. He is a #NeverTrump conservative who brings both… more »

We live in a time when expertise of all kinds is denigrated. It should not be a surprise then that I, a rank amateur, can presume to present a social-anthropological hypothesis that explains the proliferation of asocial behavior in modern society. I… more »

I came across an interesting thread on Twitter last weekend. The author is Caroline Orr,  “a social sciences scholar studying human interactions on the Internet. Orr [has] watched the cyber-war continue unabated in real time. Her Twitter feed plays an… more »

An idea whose time will never come- a library named for the man who disdains reading. We have to admit, however, that the thought of a Trump Presidential Library is enticing. First of all, think of the possibilities when it comes to the actual building:… more »

With the coal-in-the-stocking tax bill the Republican Congress and President Scrooge McTrump hung on Americans’ mantle the week before Christmas, governance-challenged Republicans finally got the legislative win they so desperately sought. Imagine that:… more »