Sunday, 28th May 2017

Tribalism in American Politics

From May 28 2017

I agree with everything in this op-ed. And yet…

I still wait to find a single instance of anyone on the Trump side of the aisle say the same thing… Continue reading…

Wednesday, 1st February 2017

American Exceptionalism

From Feb. 1, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/01/america-the-unexceptional/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-posteverything%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.33891af1b12a

American exceptionalism always struck me (and, I have to say, most of the rest of the world) as a strange conceit. This article argues that, whatever it was, the… Continue reading…