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A Correspondence Between Two Marines (Installment Two)
I expended the past 48 hours or so debating a Marine on Facebook. He’s a friend of a friend, so I can’t vouch for him, but he seems like a good and smart guy. He’s training to be firefighter at the...
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Barack Obama is a Center-Right President, And the American Center is More...
This originated as part of a Facebook exchange, so the writing (especially the transitions) might come across as a tad choppy. My apologies in advance. CORRECTION: I wrote, in the beginning of bullet...
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Historicizing Polarization
The latest polling data was just released on how polarized and scary the public has become. There’s some important and alarming findings in the mix, but overall, I see this as just another iteration of...
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Journalism v. Integrated Marketing Communications
There’s a story fluttering about the Internets about how the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications screwed the pooch by awarding misspelled diplomas where the “n” in...
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Why Americans Hate Government and Love Markets
It’s a shibboleth here in the states, both among liberals and conservatives, to presume that the government is more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse than markets. Putting aside the fact that in any...
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The Black Book of Empire: What Americans Ought to Know in 2015
For most of 2010, I served in Afghanistan as a Marine intelligence officer. I spent about half the deployment visiting my troops at remote patrol bases, accompanying them on missions, and developing a...
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The Elephant in the Room, Or Why Mainstream Journalists Suck
Consequential policy debates today are centered around economics, foreign policy, education, law and order, and climate science. In all of these fields, the most respected scholars tend to share...
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Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Others Costs of Bad Policy
Antisemitism is surging. So is Islamophobia, not to mention every other ugly or murderous gesticulation that tends to surface in the wake of mad social, economic, and national defense policies. When...
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The Free Market is a Unicorn
Anyone who believes we live in a “free market” society is not in touch with reality. Anyone who believes we ever lived in a “free market” society is romanticizing a past that never was. Anyone who...
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One Person’s Safe Space Is Another Person’s Trigger
The other day I engaged in a Facebook exchange with a good friend about the merits or demerits of this Judith Shulevitz op-ed at The Times. I argued it got things right. I added in my original FB post,...
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