Book Review: The Future of Whiteness
I don’t like to overuse the term “must read” but Linda Martin Alcoff’s The Future of Whiteness (2015, Polity) is a must-read. We live in the era of white reaction to non-whites getting equal rights,...
View ArticleThe Liberal Project Goes into Another Year, Weathered but Unbeaten
The liberal project's foe is a conservative ideology that de-legitimizes other modes of thought, compromise and a thought for the common weal
View ArticleDana Perino Explains Why She is a Conservative – And She is ALL Wrong
Feel free to laugh: "I gravitate to facts, logic, and reality, whereas to me, liberalism is based on theory, and feelings, and fantasy."
View ArticleD’oh: Glenn Beck Targets Homer Simpson
Glenn Beck has had so many jump the shark moments of late, but he may have topped them all today on his Fox News show when he managed to connect Homer Simpson to the decline of the American family....
View ArticleSome Hard Truths About Prayer and Crime
The morality police will continue to argue that the reverse is true but in a fact-based world this cannot be the case. Prayer does not reduce crime. Those who pray are more likely to be criminals than...
View ArticleRepublicanism Kills History on Contact
As the historical facts - the actual facts - are inconvenient, Beck, like other Republicans, have fabricated a history more congenial to Republican ideology.
View ArticleShut Up, Know Your Role, or Die – the GOP’s 2012 Platform
The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever the Constitution says
View ArticleRepublicans Declare Defeat and Claim They Have Lost the Culture War
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
View ArticleWhy Conservatives are Wrong When They Say Liberalism Will Fail
Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism's illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail
View ArticleWhy America Needs a Left
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a 'hard' left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
View ArticleThere Has to Be Room for Dissent Among Obama Supporters
Harsh attacks by liberals on liberals who disagreed with the President's Social Security proposal seem aimed at stifling democratic dissent
View ArticleThe Right Claims Liberals Have a Dull-Witted, Self-Defeating, Abjectly Wicked...
Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber and his recent scree
View ArticleBryan Fischer Says Liberals Hate America and Christianity
Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded
View ArticleWhat are ‘Liberals,’ What are ‘Progressives,’ and Why the Difference Matters
Not all liberals are progressive, and not all progressives are liberal. And when we discuss politics, we must recognize and respect our differences.
View ArticleConservatives Are Terrified By America’s Rising Surge of Liberalism
It's funny that it took conservatives this long, or rather one conservative, this long to arrive here. But here he is. Strong liberalism is on the rise, Bruce Bartlett announces rather sadly.
View ArticleCan The Conservative Mind Be Changed?
Accumulating research suggests political beliefs are hard-wired into our biology, so can conservatives change their minds?
View ArticleSteve King Says if You’re not a Capitalist You Don’t Love America
"They don't like the constitution, they don't love this country, they don't appreciate the greatness of America, they don't think of this country the way I do"
View ArticleAnother Conservative Plan to Take Their States and Go Home
Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the face of the Earth. Hate, hate, hate it with the fires of a thousand burning suns.
View ArticleProgressive Hatred of the Democratic Party is Misguided
The idea that progressives need to break up with the Democratic Party, that it's "Time to get out of this abusive relationship" is based on a false premise
View ArticleThe Democratic Party Is Not Your Abusive Partner, Progressives, It’s Your...
Calls for the Progressives to "break up" with the Democratic Party as an abusive partner miss the mark. The problems is actually their neglect of the party.
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