Of of my most interesting lessons about race I learned while sharing a tent in a heavy rain storm during officer’s training with a black guy, namely that black people had the same sorts of notions about the strange ways…
Scratch God from Puritanism and Voila! You Have the Modern Left
“De Lawd he sho’ do work in mysterious ways”. You’ve heard me repeat that old southern refrain several times. But in a book I’ll never live long enough to write, about the “Devil’s History of the United States”, and Scratch’s…
Our System of Federalism and the Mess it Sometimes Creates
The notion of federalism is that the Constitution grants the states the leeway to set up their own laboratories about governing that do not conflict with the rights it guarantee to the People, (Art IX and X). It helps to…
How Things Work: The Law of Generations and the Children of the Rich
This series is a tip for any would be scholar out there who can labor through more than 500 words of analysis. I’m an analyst, not a scholar, and am only looking for leads as to things that might be…