thus always to tyrants
Modern political lies rarely travel solo. They arrive accessorized with a happy crowd of fools ready to believe. The story circulating about Gavin Newsom and his interview with Andre Dickens, the mayor of Atlanta, is a perfect specimen. Newsom told a “largely Black audience” that he was just like them because he did poorly on […]
There is a sentence that should chill every citizen to the bone: A combat-unit commander allegedly told troops that the war with Iran is part of God’s plan, and that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon.” Armageddon. That is not strategy.That is not deterrence.That […]
“He who is the author of war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”— Thomas Paine, 1778 These are not merely times that try men’s souls. These are times that test whether we possess souls at all. We were promised an end to regime change. […]
“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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Last night, people gathered in Brockport, New York. A small college town. Hundreds of miles from Minnesota. Candles in gloved hands. Silence broken only by breath and resolve. That distance is important. It’s the detail the mockers trip over. “What does Brockport have to do with Minnesota?” “What a waste of time.” “Do you really […]
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