Browsing the “POLITICS” Category
Published on July 14th, 2016
Anyone who has experienced childbirth can attest to this fact: no great change comes into the world without pain. From our earliest origins as a nation we have been torn by a fundamental contradiction between [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on July 4th, 2016
In late 2010, as a young UN staffer in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, I witnessed the tail end of an ultimately fatal high-speed police chase. It was a late Friday afternoon and I was [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on June 6th, 2016
There are heavily populated precincts in places like Boston, Camden, Baltimore and other Northern cities where fewer than ten people vote in Republican primaries. A decades-long influx of Southern Democrats alienated by their party’s support [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on June 6th, 2016
Julius Chan, Playing the Game: Life and Politics in Papua New Guinea, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Brisbane, 2016 With the United States presidential race heating up, and the ascension of candidates like Donald [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on April 23rd, 2016
When my late grandmother was a girl in rural Arkansas, no one had a job. Everyone old enough to walk and carry a pail worked from dawn to dusk. Work was endless, cruel and utterly [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2016
From Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk, from Brent Bozell to Bill Buckley; all roads lead to “The Donald” now, or to his minion, Ted Cruz. Julian Castro dropped his copy of “Paso a Paso” and [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on April 6th, 2016
Australia is at a period where good ideas matter. Changing the flag is not one of them. Labor MP Tim Watts has recently emerged as Australia’s leading anti-flag spokesman. His thoughts echo those of [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on March 16th, 2016
Seventy-two percent of the voters in 2012 identified as white. Thirty-five percent of the electorate self-identified as conservative. Mitt Romney won these groups 59% and 82% respectively. Still, though, Romney lost. He lost because President [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on March 16th, 2016
This is what the end of a political party looks like. Seventeen Presidential candidates packed into a clown-car primary, competing to be the most outrageous entertainer on the stage. Thanks to the Blue Wall we’ve [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on February 28th, 2016
American Blacks must cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit independent of any president in the White House. – Armstrong Williams There is no getting around certain troubling and enduring implications of Black-White differences in America. Is there [&hellip…; Read More →