The Grift That Keeps on Grifting: the Troubling Issue on Campus
The Center - “One of the most common questions posed by those trying to fight this is: What can we do to stop this? As someone who works in education and higher learning, I can provide three potential options…” 9/20/2020
The Center - “One of the most common questions posed by those trying to fight this is: What can we do to stop this? As someone who works in education and higher learning, I can provide three potential options…” 9/20/2020“Systemic Racism”: a Popular Illusion 
The Right - “These slavery and race theorists are correct about the existence of the stain but wrong about it being indelible.” 9/19/2020
The Right - “These slavery and race theorists are correct about the existence of the stain but wrong about it being indelible.” 9/19/2020Bob Woodward and “Citizen Trump”
The Right - “President Trump was acting as the United States’ cheerleader, his Republican supporters argue. He was derelict in his duty to protect the American public, charge his Democratic opponents.” 9/16/2020
The Right - “President Trump was acting as the United States’ cheerleader, his Republican supporters argue. He was derelict in his duty to protect the American public, charge his Democratic opponents.” 9/16/2020Searching for Common Meaning in the Age of Polarization 
The Center - “It is not between Red and Blue states; it is a battle about whether there is meaning outside of politics.” 9/16/2020
The Center - “It is not between Red and Blue states; it is a battle about whether there is meaning outside of politics.” 9/16/2020When the Press Is Just as Guilty of “Election Interference”
The Right - “As for now, journalists of Goldberg’s type are simply in the electoral interference business; and they just so happen to be doing it from within the United States’ own borders and from beneath the mastheads of once-respected magazines.” 9/15/2020
The Right - “As for now, journalists of Goldberg’s type are simply in the electoral interference business; and they just so happen to be doing it from within the United States’ own borders and from beneath the mastheads of once-respected magazines.” 9/15/2020Secretary Mattis and “Meditations” on Trump
The Right - “Secretary Mattis’ words are a warning and a reminder that our roots were born not of anger but of a deeply felt awareness of human limitation.” 9/12/2020
The Right - “Secretary Mattis’ words are a warning and a reminder that our roots were born not of anger but of a deeply felt awareness of human limitation.” 9/12/2020In Gratitude for the Executive Order on Critical Race Theory
The Right - “The Melting Pot is a quaint notion now perhaps (and no longer widely taught to curious young boys and girls), but I find it useful as a basic counterimage to the sophisticated, academic concept of Critical Race Theory now being taught.” 9/11/2020
The Right - “The Melting Pot is a quaint notion now perhaps (and no longer widely taught to curious young boys and girls), but I find it useful as a basic counterimage to the sophisticated, academic concept of Critical Race Theory now being taught.” 9/11/2020“Holding the Powerful Accountable”—Empty Words?
The Center - “The holding the powerful accountable phrase resonates as it does—and, presumably, is chosen by the news media’s back-patters—because it is, indeed, precisely what a news media should be doing.” 9/7/2020
The Center - “The holding the powerful accountable phrase resonates as it does—and, presumably, is chosen by the news media’s back-patters—because it is, indeed, precisely what a news media should be doing.” 9/7/2020How Looting Destroyed Venezuela: a Cautionary Tale
The Center - “And one particular author, Vicky Osterweil, has shamelessly written a book entitled In Defense of Looting.” 9/1/2020
The Center - “And one particular author, Vicky Osterweil, has shamelessly written a book entitled In Defense of Looting.” 9/1/2020For This Black Woman, the GOP Feels Like Home
The Right - “Suddenly, the Grand Old Party was no longer seen as white, privileged, and wealthy. Instead, it was truly the party of social justice, freedom, economic opportunity, and the American Dream.” 8/30/2020
The Right - “Suddenly, the Grand Old Party was no longer seen as white, privileged, and wealthy. Instead, it was truly the party of social justice, freedom, economic opportunity, and the American Dream.” 8/30/2020Don’t Run Away, Conservatives
The Right - “But it feels myopic to interpret this as a larger victory or cheer for more of the same, especially if the ultimate goal is to restore some sense of ideological pluralism to mainstream institutions.” 8/26/2020
The Right - “But it feels myopic to interpret this as a larger victory or cheer for more of the same, especially if the ultimate goal is to restore some sense of ideological pluralism to mainstream institutions.” 8/26/2020When the Media Is Far from Being an “Arbiter of Truth”
The Right - “And when anyone sees past the illusion of impartiality, thereby revealing the propaganda’s true form, the media recovers with yet more gaslighting: You are merely imagining things.” 8/18/2020
The Right - “And when anyone sees past the illusion of impartiality, thereby revealing the propaganda’s true form, the media recovers with yet more gaslighting: You are merely imagining things.” 8/18/2020On Robert Orlando’s “Citizen Trump”
The Center - “To do so, he tells President Trump’s life story in the cinematographic style of Citizen Kane, incorporating the iconic snow globe, the campaign poster, and even the mysterious word (‘Rosebud’) that is central to Orson Welles’ masterpiece.” 8/14/2020
The Center - “To do so, he tells President Trump’s life story in the cinematographic style of Citizen Kane, incorporating the iconic snow globe, the campaign poster, and even the mysterious word (‘Rosebud’) that is central to Orson Welles’ masterpiece.” 8/14/2020On Tucker Carlson and Sycophants
The Left - “Regardless of whether President Trump succeeds in his bid for re-election to the White House, those who think and speak like Carlson will likely suffer no retribution for throwing red meat to his base.” 8/9/2020
The Left - “Regardless of whether President Trump succeeds in his bid for re-election to the White House, those who think and speak like Carlson will likely suffer no retribution for throwing red meat to his base.” 8/9/2020The Singular Courage of Tucker Carlson
The Right - “In the United States today, this is the language of the revolution’s media advance team. They want to silence one of our most prominent voices of opposition…” 8/5/2020
The Right - “In the United States today, this is the language of the revolution’s media advance team. They want to silence one of our most prominent voices of opposition…” 8/5/2020The Case for Free Vaccines
The Right - “In the meantime, perhaps given their impressive track record, free-to-consumer vaccines are something we can all get behind.” 8/1/2020
The Right - “In the meantime, perhaps given their impressive track record, free-to-consumer vaccines are something we can all get behind.” 8/1/2020