May 28, 2019

Fear Theocracy? Bad News: All Politics Is Theocratic

Has anyone coined a term to describe the irrational fear of the government imposing laws based on religion?  If not, I humbly suggest "theocraphobia." In the United States, Alabama's ban of abortion after a fetal heartbeat ...

October 12, 2016

Trump, Morality, and Reason

It’s important to remember that a lot of Donald Trump’s supporters are so stubbornly loyal to him because he has the right enemies. How, some wonder, can decent people, including Evangelical Christians, continue to support Donald Trum...

October 4, 2016

The Intellectual Case for Donald Trump

Right-wing wunderkind Ross Douthat has recently claimed that all "intellectual" arguments for Trump fail because of the man's ungovernable personality and temperament.  We have no idea what he really believes, or what he might do, ...

August 22, 2016

Is Donald Trump More Conservative Than Conservatives?

I.   The backlash against Donald Trump from a lot of groups is predictable, but one of the more interesting cases of this reaction is from the conservative intelligentsia.   Trump's sins against conservatism are, they tell u...