“The ice is tilted,” we hockey fans say when one team is so dominant it feels as though they are skating downhill while their opponent claws uphill for oxygen. One end of the rink becomes a siege. The puck rarely leaves it. Momentum is obvious. When the White House elevates the U.S. men’s hockey team […]
Month: February 2026
Friends. Americans. Countrymen: We were asked to stand. Stand, if we believe the first duty of government is to protect citizens before “illegals.” And many did stand. For who would not stand for safety?Who would not defend his child, his street, his own door? I am a citizen.I claim the protection of this nation gladly. […]
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A View From the Near Future It began, as these things always do, with a reasonable nod. Fraud, we were told, lurked in the margins. Not everywhere. Not often. But somewhere. A statistical ghost. And so, in the name of confidence, clarity, cleanliness, we forged the National ID. A tidy little talisman of belonging. A […]
Happy 65th birthday to Henry Rollins. There are rebels who wear costumes and rebels who shred them. Henry Rollins chooses subtraction. No chemical haze. No ironic smirk. No velvet rope between him and the audience. He built a life around discipline, confrontation, and the stubborn belief that thinking for yourself is a physical act. In […]
Under Donald Trump officials and media surrogates have reached for a familiar incantation: domestic terrorism. It has been applied not only to protestors, but to movements, to gatherings, to grief itself. In some cases, it has been applied to people who are now dead. That detail matters. When someone is killed during a protest and […]
I’ve been asked, repeatedly, why I would choose to see this film at all. The question usually arrives wearing a tone, the implication stitched neatly inside it: Why expose yourself to that? My answer is simple and unfashionable. Know the enemy. Or, more precisely, know the story the enemy tells itself. I do not believe […]