On a warm autumn afternoon a few years ago, a catenary of events forever shaped my impression of the new Spain. I had just settled into a sunny little room in a pension only a stone’s throw from the Parliament in the heart of downtown Madrid, and without a moment to lose, I asked Miguel, […]
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A few critics have faulted the Netflix drama House of Cards for inaccurately portraying certain aspects of the American political process. This is like complaining that Shakespeare’s Richard III doesn’t sufficiently resemble his historical model. One of Art’s functions is to express truth in ways that more literal mediums can’t. In fact, Art often predicts
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The Millennials’ love affair with Bernie Sanders makes sense for a few overt reasons. First, most college students now face crushing debt the moment they take a degree. The average 2015 graduate will enter the work force $35,000 in debt. Moreover, once students do graduate, there’s no guarantee they’ll find reasonably lucrative entry level jobs of
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To listen incredulous soft upon nightly in hazy light nimble so glancingly dancingly feather light luminous flickering word of a gull did she sing under thunder moon cold over blue water rhythym, remaining reluctantly sleeping in time that surrounded her spirit in silence.
Based on Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday dominance, it seems likely that the remainder of the GOP nomination process won’t be a battle between Trump and either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio, it will be a war between Trump and the Washington, D.C. / Wall Street establishment that will attempt to bring Trump down in any
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In a bizarre display of unity, an amalgam of disparate publications is attacking Donald Trump with unnatural zeal. One National Review editorial calls Trump a “philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.” A Huffington Post blog characterizes the ongoing Trump candidacy as
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