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Fake Emergencies & Genuine Democracy
SharingLegislators aren’t honest. Or maybe in Colorado and Oregon they just …
Anti-Democratic Republicans?
SharingThe Republican Party of Ohio paid lawyers $300,000 to keep …
The Willamantic Refuseniks
SharingThirty-five years ago, the people of Willimantic, Connecticut, confirmed my …
The Fix Is In
SharingCongressman Randy Kuhl had an idea: Ask his constituents what …
Rights and Democracy
SharingDemocracy and constitutional rights fit together better than some people think. …

Abolish. Or Set in Stone
November 13, 2024
Paul Jacob knows what to do with hypocrisy on at …Read More »
Destroying Dane Farming
November 12, 2024
Paul Jacob on Europe’s ongoing suicide over “greenhouse gases.”Read More »
Disaster Relief Pass-Over
November 11, 2024
Paul Jacob on partisanship at FEMA.Read More »
Exemplary Rejections
November 8, 2024
Paul Jacob celebrates voters in three states who protected their …Read More »
Not Now
November 7, 2024
Paul Jacob on political lessons to be learned — or …Read More »

Sketchiest Etching
State legislators placed Proposal 1 on the Michigan ballot to weaken …
Senator DeMint for Term Limits
SharingYes, we can term-limit the Congress. I’m not saying it will …
Michigan Voters: Alert!
SharingMichigan voters: Beware of a petition by the group Voters for …
Townhall: Democracy by Pretense
SharingInsiders continue to chafe at the restraints imposed upon them …
The World Wants Term Limits
SharingThe Economist magazine has announced its “Country of the Year.” It’s …

After Them, the Deluge
SharingOne might be forgiven for finding Sen. Kamala Harris the …
Into and Out of the Muck
SharingYesterday I referenced “pigs flying” … and Icarus’s waxed-wing fail. Today, it’s …
No Need
Sharing“So, my bottom line is there is no need to …
America, the Debatable?
Sharing“A divided America gathers for Fourth,” The Washington Post headlined …
Bernie’s Slippery Definition of Democratic Socialism
SharingBernie Sanders has always given a comically slippery definition of democratic socialism. For …

Once the most potent moral figure in Western culture was Jesus Christ. Believer or unbeliever, you took your ethical bearings from him, or professed to. To question his morals was to expose yourself as a monster. Now, the most potent moral figure in Western culture is Adolf Hitler. It is as monstrous to praise him as it would once have been to disparage Jesus. He has become the fixed reference point by which we define evil.
Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (November 2019). See also “The End of the Age of Hitler,” First Things, November 2024.

— Alec Ryrie