Given the pervasive influence of neoconservatives in academia, the media, and foreign policy establishments throughout the English-speaking world, Neoconese has become a sort of second language for people working in those professions. This has become a major source of confusion for laypersons, since many words in Neoconese have entirely different…

Defending on how one defines the term, “progressives” have begun to gain some traction in the United States, to be come an effective political force. An important aspect of this process has been a willingness to ferret out the phonies: the recognition, for example, that while Bernie Sanders is willing…

Updated 11/9/2021 Once upon a time, the term “progressive” was associated with the policies of former Vice President Henry Wallace and the 1948 Progressive Party of the United States. Those policies included a call to nationalize the energy industry, universal health care, desegregation, and an end to the Cold War…

Updated 8/14/2022 According to Merriam-Webster, a “secret police” is “a police organization that is run by a government and that operates in a secret way to control the actions of people who oppose the government.” Of course, in…

Why do they want to cancel Beethoven? 2020 has been a weird year all around, but some recent developments on the cultural front really take the cake. There are pernicious efforts underway to rewrite history and re-define culture. Let’s look at some of the initiatives that we have witnessed this…

Updated 1/8/2021 In April of 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) was founded by a group of Democratic Party activists who rejected the policy of the official Democratic Party in the southern states, which was to exclude African-Americans from voting in Democratic primary elections and from running as Democratic…

Updated 1/24/2021 On the morning of June 30, 2020, I opened my Twitter account and received a notice that it had been suspended. Following a link that promised to lead me an explanation, I learned that I had been suspended for:

Updated July 13, 2021 Ninety years have passed since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and once again, untrammeled financial speculation has rendered the financial system insolvent. The panic-stricken oligarchs who dominate that system are once again trying to preserve their position by transferring wealth from the poor to the…

Updated 9/9/2021 For those readers who may be unfamiliar with the term “Color Revolution”, it refers to what has now become the standard technique for promoting “regime change” in targeted nations.