9 Jan, 2017
Unfit to command
“During the presidential campaign a significant number of former senior foreign policy and national security officials from both parties spoke…”...
21 Dec, 2016
Pledging Allegiance
“I pledge allegiance to . . . what? The Electoral College, to no one’s serious surprise, voted Donald Trump in...
20 Dec, 2016
Steer Your Way
“Since the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, I’ve given daily thought to the more alarming...
14 Dec, 2016
A Party of Transcendence
“As we think about the election — what went wrong, what’s been unleashed and what we should do about it...
9 Dec, 2016
In the meadow we can build a straw man
“Yes, it’s that time again, there’s a chill in the air and snow on the ground and a we’ll soon...
8 Dec, 2016
An Open Letter to the Harry Potter generation: Now is the time for young Gryffindors to resist Trumpdemort!
“When my son and I were reading the Harry Potter books together, in 2009-10, I had told him that the...
2 Dec, 2016
Focus on the Silver Lining
“The election is over and Trump won. In a country with a sane election system, he would not have, but...
30 Nov, 2016
White evangelicals are fading, powerful, baffling
“Overwhelmingly, 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump — a twice-divorced vulgarian who calls women “pigs” and “slobs,”...
27 Nov, 2016
Bending the Arc
“Maybe this much is true. Donald Trump, pseudo-president-elect, loser of the real election, charismatic stump-speech populist whose actual ability…” Robert...
25 Nov, 2016
Read my apocalypse: Dead reckoning
“The Ship of State—especially that of the United States—may have begun as a lithe and limber craft back in the...
23 Nov, 2016
Countering Hate and Discrimination
“Many people in the United States are expressing concern over the rise of hatred, hate crimes, bigotry, racism, sexism, and...
21 Nov, 2016
The National Interest and the Trump Interest
“As the Trump administration takes shape, one fact seems unassailable: We have an unprecedented situation in which, step by step,...
21 Nov, 2016
Welcome to the Twilight Zone
“Existentialists contend that humanity has a streak of irrational absurdity that defies logical understanding. The Donald Trump presidential victory rouses...
19 Nov, 2016
Where Democracy’s Still Alive and Well
“Amid the gloom, apprehension, and anger surrounding the election of Donald Trump, it’s easy to overlook those places in our...
18 Nov, 2016
Democracy is not demonization
“I am a Muslim-American and a peacebuilder. In the aftermath of a polarizing election season, the victory of President-elect Donald...