In 2017, a retired fighter pilot put out an ad that got the entire liberal community excited for a competitive House seat in Kentucky. Signs were up in our neighborhoods. People were working for her campaign. But then she lost by 10,000 votes. She then ran against Mitch McConnell, collecting even more money, and losing …
I remember sitting at my desk in Riverwoods and reading the South Bend Tribune when Mayor Pete Buttigieg came out. Only a few years after I came out, a man about the same age as I did the same in a public way. Of course it was a political act. But he caught my eye …
A Saudi dissent journalist was murdered, dismembered and destroyed in a Saudi consulate in Turkey. Our government, including a hard line Secretary of State, gaslights us. For those who don’t know the movie Gaslight, a husband slowly persuades his wife that she was going insane. Our government wants to pretend this is all in our minds …
As our President wanders around Europe disgracing our nation and the world, I saw tweets floating around quoting Bertrand Russell from Yascha Mounk. He quoted A Liberal Decalogue, which Russell published in the New York Times in 1951. The Decalogue states that the best answer to fanaticism was liberalism, which he noted should include a set of …