How does American democracy outlast Trump? We are about to experience the presidency of the least experienced, least qualified, most uninformed, most autocratic and
Category: History
Bluster and saber-rattling: effective tools of foreign policy?
Mark Moyar wrote a fascinating editorial in The New York Times the other day. In “The World Fears Trump’s America. That’s a Good Thing,”
Comparing Trump and Hitler: Uncomfortable but necessary
Before the 2016 election, some historians and journalists compared Trump’s ascension with Hitler’s rise to power in Germany before World War II. Now that
Condoleezza Rice endorses Sessions for AG: How upside-down is that?
It is shocking to learn that Condoleezza Rice has endorsed Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for US Attorney General. The former Secretary of State’s decision
St. Louis is the Number 1 city for liberals? Probably not.
A new report by Livability.com calls St. Louis the Number 1 city for liberals. And while as a St. Louis resident and a liberal
An inconvenient comparison: Germany then and the U.S. now
We aren’t supposed to forget the past, and it’s so easy to see the differences between “Germany then” and “the U.S. now” that we
Remembering Fr. Daniel Berrigan
I was a student at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY, when Fr. Daniel Berrigan taught there. Although I never had him for class,
STL landfill fire nears collision with radioactive waste: What’s next?
What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump? St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In
Trump applies his usual logic to the United Nations
I can see why perhaps Donald Trump has little love for the United Nations. After all, since its inception in 1945 and his birth
Trump’s rise: How “legitimate” people and institutions become enablers
Don’t kid yourself: With help from people and institutions viewed by the voting public as “legitimate,” Donald Trump could win. Many mistakes of omission