The Mad Writer Posts

Fascism is what happens when colonialism comes home—the slow and methodical death of the colonized through the exploitation of human labor and natural resources. It…

My hatred for the Democratic Party leadership stems from a soul-crushing sadness that I disguise with my angry words. I see a party whose leaders…

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…

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…