On the Trump Coalition
Essay - “The economic situation during the Biden administration eroded and degraded the average American’s ability to participate in the life of the nation as an economically self-sufficient citizen.” (12/6/2024)
Essay - “The economic situation during the Biden administration eroded and degraded the average American’s ability to participate in the life of the nation as an economically self-sufficient citizen.” (12/6/2024)Itching for the Infinite
Essay - “Further examples abound, but suffice to say, at least as far as these prominent modern thinkers were concerned, epicureanism for the masses does seem to denote something quite real.” (12/3/2024)
Essay - “Further examples abound, but suffice to say, at least as far as these prominent modern thinkers were concerned, epicureanism for the masses does seem to denote something quite real.” (12/3/2024)What Europeans Don’t Understand about Trump Essay - “Those Europeans who shake their heads in disbelief at President-elect Trump and his success would do well to consider things, including themselves, from an American and, even more so, a global point of view.” (12/1/2024)
Essay - “Those Europeans who shake their heads in disbelief at President-elect Trump and his success would do well to consider things, including themselves, from an American and, even more so, a global point of view.” (12/1/2024)Appreciating America’s Distinctly British Heritage
Essay - “The United States’ British roots also have value because they provide a link to a history older than any homegrown alternative the United States possesses.” (11/29/2024)
Essay - “The United States’ British roots also have value because they provide a link to a history older than any homegrown alternative the United States possesses.” (11/29/2024)At Home in the War
Essay - “At the end of the summer, I got a bit too close to a Russian artillery round, a mistake that earned me a week in Kharkiv Regional Hospital. When the doctors cleared me, I walked home.” (11/27/2024)
Essay - “At the end of the summer, I got a bit too close to a Russian artillery round, a mistake that earned me a week in Kharkiv Regional Hospital. When the doctors cleared me, I walked home.” (11/27/2024)These People All Know Each Other
Essay - “Charles Krauthammer used to pride himself on not going to cocktail parties, instead preferring to be at home with his wife quietly reading, writing, doing whatever. And he was probably better for it.” (11/16/2024)
Essay - “Charles Krauthammer used to pride himself on not going to cocktail parties, instead preferring to be at home with his wife quietly reading, writing, doing whatever. And he was probably better for it.” (11/16/2024)Winds of the Great Shame
Essay - “And as she lay on her death bed, as she must have felt a cancerous tumor slowly taking her life, she would also have looked around her and seen the stern and damaged but also joyous legacy she would leave behind.” (11/13/2024)
Essay - “And as she lay on her death bed, as she must have felt a cancerous tumor slowly taking her life, she would also have looked around her and seen the stern and damaged but also joyous legacy she would leave behind.” (11/13/2024)Why Most Americans Didn’t Buy the Harris Campaign
Essay - “Hard as they tried to suck us through the black hole leading to their alternative-facts universe, inundating us in a steady stream of misinformation even as they, again ironically, accused us of peddling misinformation, we resisted.” (11/8/2024)
Essay - “Hard as they tried to suck us through the black hole leading to their alternative-facts universe, inundating us in a steady stream of misinformation even as they, again ironically, accused us of peddling misinformation, we resisted.” (11/8/2024)The Dueling Cases for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Essay - A Merion West contributing writer and editor respectively make the case for each candidate for President of the United States. (10/23/2024)
Essay - A Merion West contributing writer and editor respectively make the case for each candidate for President of the United States. (10/23/2024)The Discontents of Capitalism
Essay - “Why, in fact, do we feel compelled to ask if capitalism is failing? Why do we wonder if capitalism is moral? Why do 57% of respondents in an Edelman Trust Barometer survey believe that ‘capitalism as it exists today does more harm than good in the world?'” (10/21/2024)
Essay - “Why, in fact, do we feel compelled to ask if capitalism is failing? Why do we wonder if capitalism is moral? Why do 57% of respondents in an Edelman Trust Barometer survey believe that ‘capitalism as it exists today does more harm than good in the world?'” (10/21/2024)Blues Run the Game
Essay - “Jackson C. Frank didn’t find what he was looking for in his own life, it doesn’t seem, though it may have become increasingly out of his control. He would be diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, which hardly partnered well with his pre-existing depression.” (10/19/2024)
Essay - “Jackson C. Frank didn’t find what he was looking for in his own life, it doesn’t seem, though it may have become increasingly out of his control. He would be diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, which hardly partnered well with his pre-existing depression.” (10/19/2024)Why We Should Still Read Charles Bukowski Essay - “The author of this essay is the proud owner of 25 books, poetry collections, and short story anthologies written by the man widely recognized as the godfather of the literary movement known as ‘dirty realism.'” (10/11/2024)
Essay - “The author of this essay is the proud owner of 25 books, poetry collections, and short story anthologies written by the man widely recognized as the godfather of the literary movement known as ‘dirty realism.'” (10/11/2024)Richard Dawkins Wins in the End Essay - “Admirably, Dawkins continually made it clear that his objective was to promote a clear understanding of the world as discovered through the scientific method, and if scientific facts caused offense with anyone, then so be it.” (10/10/2024)
Essay - “Admirably, Dawkins continually made it clear that his objective was to promote a clear understanding of the world as discovered through the scientific method, and if scientific facts caused offense with anyone, then so be it.” (10/10/2024)The Origins of a Partisan Essay - “Citizens wore red and white, the colors of the Pahonia, the traditional flag of Belarus, a symbol made illegal in 1995 shortly after President Aliaksandr Lukashenka came to power.” (10/6/2024)
Essay - “Citizens wore red and white, the colors of the Pahonia, the traditional flag of Belarus, a symbol made illegal in 1995 shortly after President Aliaksandr Lukashenka came to power.” (10/6/2024)Why Postmodernism Still Matters Essay - “Finally, postmodernism influenced numerous intellectual variants that today are popular public philosophies, and we need to understand the intellectual foundations of such systems of thought if we want to evaluate them properly.” (10/5/2024)
Essay - “Finally, postmodernism influenced numerous intellectual variants that today are popular public philosophies, and we need to understand the intellectual foundations of such systems of thought if we want to evaluate them properly.” (10/5/2024)You Can (and Perhaps Should) Repeat Yourself Essay - “And, relatedly, one also begins to wonder if there are certain ways of phrasing the key points that have already been formulated, capture them perfectly, and, thus, cannot really be improved upon.” (10/1/2024)
Essay - “And, relatedly, one also begins to wonder if there are certain ways of phrasing the key points that have already been formulated, capture them perfectly, and, thus, cannot really be improved upon.” (10/1/2024)