Democrats plan new forms of self-immolation every day
If resentment toward Sanders persists so long after he stirred up considerable enthusiasm for Democrats in 2016, you want to ask why. It tells you this party does not want to win.
Author Archives: Steven Greffenius
Free speech and campus politics
Free speech rights of students and faculty Chicago 1968 and free speech Free Speech in Texas Schools Zachary Wood vs. Adam Falk: leadership …
Garden variety totalitarianism
No locus of civic participation – except organizations that have the state’s permission to operate – will remain.
Andrew McCabe stands proud
When a former FBI director boasts about this legacy of ‘protection’, you have to grant some credibility the president’s splenetic tweets about the bureau and the Department of Justice. They contain plenty of truthful kernels.
What it means to rig a system
Recall Soviet communism in Moscow, Chinese communism in Beijing, and Panem’s Capitol in The Hunger Games. In those rigged systems, only the rulers eat well.
Free speech rights of students and faculty
Tinker is the lodestar for free speech in public schools.
Augsburg the latest to buckle
We cannot connect with each other when we have lost freedom of thought or speech. We are lonely, isolated, and at loose ends – as sociologists like to say, atomized.
One lunatic to another
Coulter may call him a lunatic, but Trump has a proven record of getting most of what he wants.
Smug prosecutor syndrome
Do empty promises lead to the White House? Do lies work when you have power? Of course they do.
Shutdown theater
We have security theater, congressional hearings theater, protest theater, theater theater, and now shutdown theater.
State of the Union theater
One decision is easy to make: ask for more money to maintain and supply the prisons, build the wall, and train new officers. We have to keep the developing police state in the southwest moving forward.
Everybody settle down
Mob behavior does not display discernment. That is why I say: examine yourself, settle down, love your opponents. As Martin Luther King said, “we must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.”
