Deconstructing Demagogues

High Flying Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney Threatens Big Bird with Extinction. Ex-vulture Capitalist Ruffles Feathers by Hatching S...

Historians like Toynbee and Vico have argued long argued that civilizations have life-cycles that are similar to the arc of the human li...

Mitt Romney's Secrets to Success Mitt Romney hoards money the way eccentric old ladies stockpile porcelain dolls, knickknacks, and oth...

Dick Cheney's credibility has more holes in it than a Russian submarine. The former vice-president was a central figure in what is wide...

Barack Obama is drawing the ire of both the far right and the reflexive left. This is probably a sign the president is governing well. The ...

Pantheism versus Theism The poet William Blake saw Heaven in a wildflower and he found eternity in an hour. Poets are quite mad, of course....

Politics is like professional wrestling, only it's more entertaining but less edifying. Perhaps that explains why cable "news...