Ross Douthat calls the rise of Donald Trump as a “Revolt against Decadence”; the decadence magnified by post-American President Barack Obama (Jerusalem Post, February 3, 2016).
As many of you know, I write and email to over 7,000 people in every state across America. My in box has been inundated with those...
To be sure, this has been a very interesting election cycle. It seems that every type of character, from the most self-proclaimed conservative to the most...
The term “scapegoat” was used in the Bible when two goats were symbolically chosen on the Day of Atonement to bear the sins of the children...
Recently I viewed a clip from the 1972 film, The Candidate starring Robert Redford. The clip I saw was very enlightening. In it the incumbent candidate...
“Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” -George Washington How is it that American politicians are garnering so much wealth? During the 113th...
During the Republican Presidential Debates much has been made about Donald Trump’s policy regarding his proposed moratorium on Muslim immigration. However, even the Trumpster has failed...
There are many conservatives who believe that any of the Republican candidates would make a better president than Hillary or Bernie. Those conservatives may be very...
Several years ago, I presented a paper at a conference of the American Political Science Association in Washington, D.C. Many people were amazed to learn that...
Is self-hatred a psychologically tenable concept? Isn’t self-hatred inconsistent with self-love, surely a most fundamental human instinct? Stated in Freudian terms, self-hatred contradicts the id and...