Author: Douglas Brooks

Morning Review of the NewsDay 31 of the Trump Government Shutdown Fox News is telling its viewers that a new “radical” element of the Democrat party is taking over _their_ country, that Covington students were smeared by the left, oh, and that Adam Schiff is the real problem, not that Trump is a grifter...

We all want it to stop. Relentless. That’s the part we haven’t felt before. That it doesn’t let up. The turmoil is ordinary but the madness, the depth of the illness, an illness of character and basic decency, is unfamiliar. We’re not used to being under siege, that being a privilege of American life....

If you make it to the fifth paragraph here you might see my point without getting too upset with me. I have a take on commitment that may not suit you or resonate for _you_ but I’m willing to admit that all of this “hopefulness” does nothing for me. I find the “yes, we...

First a love song for a friend. “Further on down the road baby, you will accompany me…I think back, your love was like a sunDon’t remember no dark days, I just remember the warm warm funFurther on down the road baby, you will accompany meIf we fools in life… a happy fool I’d rather...

The facts may not yet be fully known but neither are they beyond our human abilities. State sponsored murder in plain sight is nothing new. While concealing the truth never makes it less true, what we need isn’t only more and plainer facts. What we need is meaning that delves more deeply into the...

This morning’s New York Times features an op-ed suggesting that we have a God problem, one that points to a “rhetorical problem” because Americans are somehow inhibited, less than fluent in God. But, truth to tell, that train goes nowhere and the problems we face, especially in America, won’t be solved somehow with “more...

Don’t hold this against me. I’m perfectly happy to tell edifying stories about who we _could_ be. My life depends on that or at least some significant portion of my livelihood.  I have tried not to fool people with the usual unicorn nonsense but given the furtherance of Kali Yuga, you can call on...

There are any number of articles in the past few days and, given it’s Sunday, there will be more today in which reasonable people will say reasonable things about the Kavanaugh nomination, Rothstein, and Trump’s madness. All of these presume we as Americans are playing the same game. Unless we all pretend we’re in...

It’s Power, Just Power Kautilya and Machiavelli Commingled There’s a classic of Sanskrit law attributed to Kautilya called the Arthashastra. It makes Machiavelli look like a kitten playing with string. But put the two together and we have some chance of understanding what is going on with the Kavanaugh hearings. It’s about power.  There’s...

Roe is obviously about far more more than a woman’s right to make her own health choices or abortion. It is as much about those who seek to control women, who seek to shame, manipulate, or use people for their own purposes, and who would impose their will and values on others. It is...