Only two tickets to get into the Funhouse.
As y’all know, I am a free speech absolutist by nature and I am more than a bit uneasy with “de-platforming” because it is not only applied unevenly, but it is easily weaponized to shut down all kinds of speech … not just hate speech or “yelling fire in a crowded theater.” The rub with…
There are as many hot takes on the Trump phenomenon as there are bronzer-addicted blatherati jockeying for airtime on cable news. But there is one take that rarely makes it past the outrage, the sycophancy and the psychobabble that fills all those endless hours of Trump-related “programming.” It’s the fact that President Donald J. Trump…
The media scrambled to pull the Christchurch terrorist’s White Supremacist manifesto. But it might not be the best way to deal with a movement that feeds at the trough of grievance.
This is a really frustrating day for me. My coming of age politically and historically (and musically, for that matter) mirrored what was essentially one long GHW-Bush-infused scandal … beginning with the 1980 Presidential Campaign and the October Surprise that put a CIA man in the White House … which, in turn, gave birth to…
I have been following and studying White Supremacy and Neo-Nazis since the late 80s … and, at the time, I researched and wrote about WAR (White Aryan Resistance), the Christian Identity Movement (at Hayden Lake in Idaho) and associated groups (the killing of Alan Berg) … it was my original focus as an undergrad and…