Whether it’s on the right or on the left, voters usually have a fundamental aversion to backing complex policy solutions and to lending their support to anything that requires either personal sacrifice or incremental change. Whether it’s Reagan’s borrowed vision… Read More ›
European Union
Brexit Stage Right: Britons Vote To Leave EU, Take Their Country Backwards
Inevitably, during times of momentous change and upheaval, I try to focus my sights less on speculative predictions of what the future might bring and more on the words and deeds that have shaped the trajectory of our past. With… Read More ›
The Quality of Mercy in Oklahoma
Go to Oklahoma and you will find the quality of mercy is now strained. It withers in the rainless, nameless plains out west and finds no purchase in the Cross Timbers or the Red River Basin down south. Twice profaned… Read More ›
Host Countries: HIV & Prostitution in Euro 2012
Sport is one of civilization’s most tried and true methods of escape. It is that rare outlet for our emotions and stressors that we can rely on with certitude. For the unending litany of rules and regulations in modern sports,… Read More ›
Southern Discomforts
by Drew Gibson My interest piqued this morning when I saw a link to a BBC News Magazine article on the current fiscal crisis in Europe with the sub-header: “Lessons from US history for the crisis-hit eurozone.” I assumed the… Read More ›