Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Secession

  • The Political Equivalent of Divorce?

    You've heard me say that we need to find the political equivalent of divorce if we are to reduce the animosity that threatens to destroy us as a nation. But the marital analogy limps badly. Although I don't think much of Damon Linker, he talks sense here: Part of me gravitates to a fantasy of…

  • Coronavirus and Secession

    F. H. Buckley maintains that the first could hasten the second.  We might have hoped that the pandemic would give us a respite from the nastiness of our politics, but not a bit of it. There’s a mild Trump bounce, as the president takes charge of leading the nation through the crisis, but the Trump…