The Third Estate

The strongest argument I've heard in favor of maintaining links with Trump voters is the possibility of persuasion. It goes something li...

After the election, I broke off relations with my mother, as well as with my former stepmother (who was a virtual 2nd mother to me when I wa...

Like many bloggers I fell out of the habit. I suspect Facebook played a role, as did complacency (and a measure of frustration) during the O...

This. I can't find the exact place I wrote about this phenomenon, but I know I started talking about it a few years ago. I've thou...

Of course not. Nobody serious, including Ron Chernow, thinks that he was. Look, I can appreciate William Hogeland's frustration with th...

I grew up under the confederate battle flag. Although I moved around quite a bit as a young man, it wasn't until I was in my twenties th...

If human history is any guide, Vladimir Putin's foreign adventures are plausible, perhaps even admirable. Adopting the standards typical...