Letter to the Millennials 6 — This is the sixth installment of a conversation with the generation of my students and their younger peers since August of 2014. The tone has been encouraging, though at times in the depth of the Trump Era, pessimistic. This week the Trump Era is officially over. Yes, he escaped impeachment…

America has endured political demagogues before. Joe McCarthy and George Wallace come to mind. But America never had a violent insurrection on the Nation’s Capitol. We need to acknowledge that we are experiencing not just a political crisis, but a communication crisis. There is only one reason why 50 million…

Back in September I posted this tweet about the Y2K election. I don’t claim any prescience, but it seemed obvious at the time that all the forces involved in the election had the need to preserve the notion that we were heading for some sore of democratic apocalypse. The media’s…

Richard Evans, in his monumental study of the rise of Hitler, The Coming of The Third Reich, notes the role that the Fascist street violence provocations played in the Nazi rise to power. The cult of violence was at the heart of the movement. By 1929 it could be seenin…

Its clear that Trump believed he could suppress voting by kneecapping the Post Office. But Democrats must realize that he can be stopped by three fairly simple moves that they can control. First, the Post Office must restore all mail processing capacity, meaning both machine infrastucture and the necessary human…