In John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, fictitious British secret service officer Alec Leamas concludes that spies are a “procession of fools, traitors, and pansies.”[1] If Leamas is correct, this article ends abruptly before it even begins. Are the various actions of a nation’s intelligence agencies (e.g. espionage, counterintelligence, covert political [ Read More ]
I’ve been following politics in America since I was a child, and especially since college. I’ve listened to countless radio talk shows, watched an imponderable number of pundits on cable news networks, and read the political news and opinion columns of a dozen different papers. As a writer, I also publish opinion pieces regularly with [ Read More ]
In recent days, the newly formed Forward Party has made quite a splash, garnering headlines from major news outlets in the United States and internationally. The Party claims to appeal to the “moderate, common-sense majority” and includes issues such as guns, abortion, and climate change as ones from which the party will woo potential voters. [ Read More ]
Justice is, and always has been, “social.” That’s the nature of it. Justice is meted out in relation to people, and thus is social. To speak of “social justice,” therefore, is redundant. It’s similar to speaking of “transportation automobiles,” “writing pens,” or “true truth.” Thus, when this article uses the term “Social Justice,” it is [ Read More ]
Postmodern politics and activism will, by nature, never accomplish their goals. Precisely because they draw upon standpoint theory and deals in perpetual grievances, its work will never be complete. There will always be a new standpoint from which to deliver a withering critique of the inherent badness of American society. There will always be new [ Read More ]
It has been said, famously, that all Western philosophy is “footnotes to Plato.” And, while this statement rings true, the deeper and more salient observation is that much of Western philosophy is footnotes to Lucifer. Indeed. At the Fall, the Evil One spoke a word against God’s word, calling into question the truth of God’s [ Read More ]
One of the most devastating features of postmodern politics and activism is its innate ability to reverse the gains made by earlier reform movements. In an earlier post, we saw that this is true with race and racism. In this post, we will show why it is true also with feminism and women’s rights. What [ Read More ]
On Monday July 11, psychotherapist and public intellectual Jordan Peterson offered his thoughts on the Russian war against Ukraine, sympathizing with Russia’s invasion because of Ukraine’s alliance with a morally degenerate United States (click here for a summary of Peterson’s podcast). Peterson is exactly right when to note America’s ideological and moral degeneracy. As the [ Read More ]
When it comes to American politics, there are so many ironies in the fire. And none are more pronounced than the fact that the gains of the Civil Rights movement are being undone by many of its successors who have bought into Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality. What is Critical Race Theory? In the [ Read More ]
The past decade in American politics has been quite a sight, something like a mix between a war, a ballgame, and a Hollywood movie. And in this series of FAQ’s, we are exploring one of the main reasons for the upheaval in American politics: the shift to “postmodern” politics and activism. In the last post, [ Read More ]