So here we still are, at that same fork in the road, perpetually facing that same choice. Read more

Impoverishing your customers seems like a bad business plan. Read more

I'm not a constitutional scholar, but I believe the legal term for this ruling is "no duh." Read more

We learned about slavery in the South, but not about slavery in South Brunswick and South Orange and South Plainfield. Read more

Demagogues are always ready to tell you who is to blame (and it's never them). Read more

Two words prove "cancel culture" complaints are bad-faith nonsense: Fred Phelps. Read more

It’s not hard to understand what Warnke gained from selling his lies, but what did his audience gain from buying them? Read more

From April 18, 2012, “Max Weber doesn’t live here anymore“: The effort to delineate strict boundaries and to require unquestioning compliance with “the big four” (anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-evolution, anti-environmentalist) only works because evangelicals seem to desire such boundaries. The tribal impulse is being manipulated by the fundraisers and vote-herders of the religious right, but it seems to have preceded them. So where does it come from? I think it arises, in part, from salvation anxiety. That’s a term sometimes used to describe... Read more