A True Mountain Poet by Jeemes Akers
“And I have walked the hollows hereIn the still and breathing nightAlong the creek bed roads and winding paths. I have heard the jewelled drip of dewOn dead leaf beds, […]
The Electoral College Workaround That Isn’t by Michael Smith
The National Popular Vote Compact isn’t reform, it’s an obvious coordinated end-run around the Constitution that strips states, and their citizens, of their last real power. When Virginia’s chameleon governor, […]
Big Things in a Small Town by Jeff Workman
Into The Blue is about finding joy in simple pleasures. One of those pleasures is a small town. My wife and I have owned a camper van for several years. […]
The Virginia Way Is Dead by Paula T. Weiss
When I moved to Virginia from Minnesota in 1995, I was impressed by the calm surface of local politics. My new home, Northern Virginia, had moderate Republicans and Democrats representing […]
The Siren Song of the Jihadist: Mamdani and the New New York by Paula Weiss
Illustration is “Treacherous Attack by Saracens–Chroniques de France ou de Saint Denis Royal” courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. The candidacy of Zohran Mamdani is an affront to the memory of every […]
Where Publishers Fear To Tread by Michael Jay Friedman
Moral panic, anyone? Back in the 1950s, Americans convinced themselves that comic books were subverting our nation’s youth. The Seduction of the Innocent, proclaimed a famed psychologist cited in Brown […]
Why “Free Palestine” Has Become an Antisemitic Dog Whistle by Jonathan Ressler
In a different world, “Free Palestine” might have been a noble rallying cry—a call for peace, justice, and human dignity for all people in the region. But we don’t live […]
Book of the Month: Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington
Review by Paula Weiss Image by Freepik We are not meat Legos I have been out-dystopianed. I was prepared to read a conventional screed against the impact of second-wave feminism […]
Book of the Month: The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad
Review by Paula Weiss We’re not out of the woods yet, but we never are. When Donald Trump was re-elected in November, I was reading this book, and wondering whether […]
A Trump Victory is Not the End Point of a Populist Revolution by Daniel Jupp
Having been ill over the Christmas period my regular readers have experienced a bit of a gap in my articles here, for which I apologise. Four or five days can […]