Opinions, essays, and reflections on politics, faith, and culture
[Originally published on my old blog on April 25, 2011, this essay was written partially in response to a class assignment. I have reposted it here without edits.] Yesterday I was sitting in the Piazza del Duomo in Milan, Italy. It was a warm and lively evening, as hundreds of people milled about with their … Continue reading “Race, Patriotism, and the Nation State”
I left Twitter a couple years ago, but sometimes I have pithy thoughts that are roughly the length of a 280 character Tweet. Here are some of them, in no particular order. [WARNING: As tweets, they are not very nuanced and tend to be pretty black-and-white…so please don’t read too much into them. Any intelligent … Continue reading “Tweets I never Tweeted”
From 2021 onward, I was telling people around me to expect a big Republican wave in the 2022 midterms elections. Even though Joe Biden had just won a sizable victory over Donald Trump in November 2020, and inflation had yet to emerge at that point, any political scientist or historian could tell you that the … Continue reading “Why did the Republicans underperform so badly in the 2022 midterms?”
A month ago, I wrote about possible responses that President Biden might take in response to a Russian invasion of Ukraine. In no particular order, here are a few of the things I’ve been learning or thinking now that Russia has actually invaded. –My original comparison of Ukraine to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in … Continue reading “Some quick, unedited thoughts in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”