Knowing Which “Hill to Die On”
The Left - “Idealists, in order to change the systems in which they exist, must usually remain in that system.” 3/29/2021
The Left - “Idealists, in order to change the systems in which they exist, must usually remain in that system.” 3/29/2021Age Quod Agis The Center - “From Saint Ignatius, this short phrase’s message is straightforward yet powerful: Do what you are doing.” 3/28/2021
The Center - “From Saint Ignatius, this short phrase’s message is straightforward yet powerful: Do what you are doing.” 3/28/2021Joe Biden: the New Face for Much of the Same on Immigration The Left - “Democrats have long gotten away with murder this way, shaking migrant hands in public view while mercilessly oppressing them out of sight.” 3/27/2021
The Left - “Democrats have long gotten away with murder this way, shaking migrant hands in public view while mercilessly oppressing them out of sight.” 3/27/2021Review: Michael Shnayerson’s “Bugsy Siegel” Criticism - “It is a short and gripping panorama of life in 1920s-1940s America, that defining epoch of struggle and stardom, hardship and grandeur, fortune and bankruptcy—and Bugsy Siegel experienced it all.” 3/25/2021
Criticism - “It is a short and gripping panorama of life in 1920s-1940s America, that defining epoch of struggle and stardom, hardship and grandeur, fortune and bankruptcy—and Bugsy Siegel experienced it all.” 3/25/2021Is Joe Biden the Future of Liberalism? Let’s Hope So The Center - “Will the Democrats prove captive to cultural grievance, identity politics, anti-racism, and the like? Or will they throw their lot in with Biden-style moderates…” 3/24/2021
The Center - “Will the Democrats prove captive to cultural grievance, identity politics, anti-racism, and the like? Or will they throw their lot in with Biden-style moderates…” 3/24/2021The Politicization of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” The Right - “Fixated and obsessed with Superman’s ‘whiteness,’ Phillips cannot appreciate a movie for what it is, content instead to completely misinterpret it in order to make her misguided social beliefs more palatable.” 3/22/2021
The Right - “Fixated and obsessed with Superman’s ‘whiteness,’ Phillips cannot appreciate a movie for what it is, content instead to completely misinterpret it in order to make her misguided social beliefs more palatable.” 3/22/2021Flexible Government Is Good Government The Center - “When to allow discretion on the part of public servants is not an easy question to answer.” 3/21/2021
The Center - “When to allow discretion on the part of public servants is not an easy question to answer.” 3/21/2021Chile’s Real Battle: Citizens vs. Tainted Bureaucrats The Right - “Instead of protesting to usher in social democracy, citizens on the Left and Right in Chile should come together to protest the abhorrent corruption that has slithered its way into the political parties of the Chilean Right.” 3/20/2021
The Right - “Instead of protesting to usher in social democracy, citizens on the Left and Right in Chile should come together to protest the abhorrent corruption that has slithered its way into the political parties of the Chilean Right.” 3/20/2021Is Gen Z Really So Different? The Center - “Coming of age in the 1990s, the state of the world seemed every bit as dire to me as it does to many ‘Zoomers.'” 3/19/2021
The Center - “Coming of age in the 1990s, the state of the world seemed every bit as dire to me as it does to many ‘Zoomers.'” 3/19/2021Local Decision-Makers and Keeping Kids Active During the Pandemic The Center - “Yet, paradoxically, it appears as a nation that our collective response to the pandemic has exacerbated the pre-existing epidemic of physical inactivity amid efforts to protect people’s health.” 3/17/2021
The Center - “Yet, paradoxically, it appears as a nation that our collective response to the pandemic has exacerbated the pre-existing epidemic of physical inactivity amid efforts to protect people’s health.” 3/17/2021