19 Oct, 2018
Calibrating for fake v real news
“I teach between 300-400 students every year and one of the most frequent concerns expressed by them is source reliability…”...
19 Oct, 2018
17 Oct, 2018
Kavanaugh Confirmed: Where Do We Go From Here?
“The dust has settled on Judge Kavanaugh’s ascension to the Supreme Court and the strong, complex emotions associated with it....
17 Oct, 2018
The Khashoggi Affair: A Murder Mystery in Four Acts
“Act 1 (Washington, DC): Upon learning of the disappearance and possible murder of the Saudi journalist and critic, Jamal Khashoggi,...
16 Oct, 2018
Intentional or Incompetence—Voter Suppression Where We Live
“On October 15th, 2018 early voting in Georgia started. I arrived at my polling place at 1:56 p.m. and completed...
15 Oct, 2018
Getting Away with Murder
“In March I wrote about the visit to Washington of Saudi Arabia’s new leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. At...
14 Oct, 2018
Our American character and you the voter
“When we speak of people from a particular identity group—ethnicity, nationality, regional group, state, town, or one of many others—we...
13 Oct, 2018
Evolution of Religion
“Science answers many questions but not of morality or wisdom. Human judgment is responsible there. But morality began with evolution....
11 Oct, 2018
Waiting For Hitler
“If there is one thing I have learned as a political analyst, it is that there is no such thing...
10 Oct, 2018
Climate change and collective salvation
“In the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, as white male privilege reclaims its desperate grip on our future, the...
8 Oct, 2018
What’s Happened to the Big Wage Increases Promised by Republicans?
“The recent announcement by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, that his company would give substantial raises to its lowest-paid...
6 Oct, 2018
Why Conservatives (Still) Like Kavanaugh
“Senator Collins should be proud of herself. She will now potentially go down in history as the woman who made...
5 Oct, 2018
Dangerous White Lies
“When I started teaching at the university level, about 1,500 students ago, I had no idea that I’d ever have...
3 Oct, 2018
From Carswell to Kavanaugh
“These words did in G. Harrold Carswell nearly five decades ago: “I am Southern by ancestry, birth, training, inclination, belief...
29 Sep, 2018
A Victory for Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
“On September 18 leaders of North and South Korea signed a September Declaration to advance inter-Korean cooperation and the possibility...
28 Sep, 2018
Abolish Immigration Detention
“If you visit a detainee at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center northeast of Los Angeles, you’ll turn off Highway 395...