Been There, Done That
By: Earl R Smith II, PhD Americans work harder, pay more, and live shorter lives than citizens of countries like Sweden, France, Germany, or Spain. They suffer medical bankruptcies that would be unthinkable elsewhere. They beg for scraps of paid leave. They drown in student debt just for daring to…
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” – Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, after the attack on Pearl Harbor In 1941 it was an attack by a foreign enemy. This is a more contemporary story about an attack by…
I write this believing that the future of the Democratic Party, and indeed that of the United States as a Madisonian Republic, rests on the proverbial knife’s edge. Inaction, or more of the same, will almost certainly not save the Republic. Action that departs from past ineffective patterns and charts…
Politics is the art of selling promises that you have no chance to make good on, to voters who are both gullible enough to believe you, and who won’t hold you accountable for selling them a bill of goods. This is particularly true of politicians who are running their last…
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“The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,” declared John F. Kennedy in his 1961 inaugural address, signaling a shift away from the old guard toward leadership that understood and shared the struggles of everyday citizens. Today, the Democratic Party finds itself at a similar crossroads. If…
My core argument in this posting will be that multiculturalism is inherently contradictory to the founding principles of the United States. As it was initially conceived, becoming an American involved agreeing to a series of principles and ideals. A person did not have to be any particular nationality, speak a…
My first president was FDR – my last will probably be Trump. Yeah, I am that old. There are so few Americans left alive who remember how it used to be. Only the very early Boomers really lived the life that used to be called the American Dream. They came…
The concept of identity has played a crucial role in shaping American society, evolving dramatically from the 1950s to the era of Generation Z. This evolution is closely tied to the rise and transformation of identity politics, which began as a unifying framework for shared struggles, but eventually fragmented and…
In this post, I want to focus on the evolution of the Fourth Estate in the US. It would be an understatement to say that, over the last half dozen decades, the influence and integrity of that pillar of democracy has gradually evolved from the creator of an informed public…