January 29, 2025

Capra Defeats Kafka

The 2024 election was a referendum like no other. Unlike past elections, it was not an inconsequential choice. It was not a choice between candidates who campaign as political opponents with competing philosophies and different visions (as those erud...

October 27, 2024

The Joy of Intersectionality

In 1958, the Rodgers and Hammerstein movie musical South Pacific was released, seasoned with what were at that time bold reflections on race.  The musical included the song “Carefully Taught,” with the lyrics “you’ve...

July 4, 2023

The Founding Fathers and the Wicked Stepfounders

Many children of divorce experience a kind of exile.  Although you are told your home has not shrunk, but expanded, it rarely feels that way.  Not only has the place you used to think of as home changed many of its rituals and rul...

March 21, 2023

I Left My Hate in San Francisco

I arrived in San Francisco an agitating radical. Decades later I left an agitated conservative. With its variety pack of human types and myriad available life paths seemingly as fascinating as its meandering undulating roads, San Francisco presented ...

July 31, 2021

How Witch-Hunters Operate

As I grew up in a California suburb that was largely colonized in the latter half of the 20th century with the hope of many upwardly mobile young families, I am often reminded by fellow Californians of my good fortune in spending those years bet...

February 14, 2021

The Intellectuals' Assault on Intelligence

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." —Leonard Cohen. When I went to college in the 1980s, I recall how inscrutable the politics of many of my professors was.  One day the professor would arg...

October 26, 2020

Exposing Liberals' 'Tiny Fraction' Lie

In a recent podcast, Michelle Obama, as she continues to shed her "no red state nor blue state America but just United States of America" skin to reveal a ruthless, myopic partisan looking to settle scores from fights unknown while making c...