10 November 2024 THE AFTERMATH Let’s turn back the clock to moments just after sunset on 8 November 2016. I was at a party in Manhattan’s...

3 November 2024 WHO WILL WIN? I have several friends who, during this unnervingly close election (where there is truly so much on the...

27 October 2024 MY MAINE VILLAGE AND THE STATIC POLL NUMBERS OF KAMALA HARRIS Autumn in New England. A constant, unclouded sky… its hue...

20 October 2024 WHY THE WORKING CLASS SUPPORTS TRUMP – EVEN IF HIS PARTY HATES HELPING THEM One of the more unsettling political...

3 October 2024 BIG ELECTION / BIG MONEY A few weeks back I got the following email from a group called Bold Democrats. It was asking me...

6 October 2024 ANGER ON THE LEFT When it comes to outsiders trying to broad-sketch the United States, one of the ongoing stereotypes that...

29 September 2024 ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM AS AN ELECTION INFLUENCER Back in 2016 – when he was still just a shifty real estate mogul and...

22 SEPTEMBER 2024 GOD IN AMERICA… AND THE NEW CATHOLIC RESURGENCE “Almighty God hath created the mind free” is an oft forgotten (and...

15 September 2024 TRUMP AND WOMEN  My father was a classic Angry White Male. He grew up in a tough working class corner of Brooklyn...

8 September 2024 THE MATH A few weeks back, on a peerless August evening in coastal Maine, I was sipping a summery Gin and Tonic with an...