Notes From a Dying Empire

The victorious cause pleased the gods; the vanquished cause pleased Cato.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

The Drug War and Police Brutality, Part Two: Mister Nixon's War

President Richard M. Nixon was a man with enemies. So many enemies, in fact, that he had to make several lists to keep track of them all... ...

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

The Drug War and Police Brutality, Part One: Prohibition

DISPATCH JULY 2016, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Police are being killed by citizens. Citizens are being killed by police. The killings have...

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Tribalism and American Decay

Tribalism: the classic paradigm of Us versus Them. My group versus your group. My clan versus your clan. Everyone within this circle is goo...

Thursday, July 7, 2016

A-7713: Remembering Elie Wiesel and the Liberation of Buchenwald

In March of 1944, fifteen-year-old Elie Wiesel and his family were sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he was tattooed w...

Monday, July 4, 2016

Independence Day and the Second Amendment

On a crisp April morning two hundred and forty-one years ago, farmers and townsfolk of eastern Massachusetts assembled under arms and came ...

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