There is an understandable attraction to monocausal explanations. It is easier to say that poverty is the result of an individual’s moral failure. It is…
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Why Are We Surprised?
Published January 6, 2026
We need to stop being surprised by the actions of the Trump administration. They told us in Project 2025 what they will do. They told…
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Published December 31, 2025
My nightmares do not consist of things that I know, but of things I do not know but which history tells me will likely happen.…
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Published December 27, 2025
We have history all wrong if we think that Nazi ideas have taken over the country. If we examine the historical timetable, we find that…
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Do Not Go Gentle
I have a strange collection of books. One is called “The Auschwitz Album.” When Auschwitz was liberated, one of the survivors found an SS officer’s…