Peter Dale Scott on Enlightenment Values in the Age of Trump
Reading Time: 13 minutes Famed author and thinker Peter Dale Scott offers hope — and enlightenment — to those despairing in the age of Trump.
How to Make a Political Statement on Halloween (While That’s Still Legal)
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you still haven’t picked out your Halloween costume, here is some inspiration for those who take politics and political leaders seriously but not too seriously.
Classic Who: Texas Concealed Carry Law and the UT Tower Massacre
Reading Time: 3 minutes WhoWhatWhy reaches into its archives to remember a massacre with echoes of the Las Vegas attack.
The South’s Monumental History Lesson
Reading Time: 2 minutes A popular argument against removing Confederate statues is that it would be “erasing history.” If preserving history were the real concern, where are the monuments to great civil rights figures in the South?
A Trump Treasury of Tweets, Part 3
Reading Time: < 1 minute WhoWhatWhy once again opens the treasury to bring out the golden nuggets of presidential twittery.
Labor Day: Art From the Great Depression
Reading Time: 5 minutes Paintings, drawings, and prints from a dynamic time when President Roosevelt saved America by putting people — including artists — back to work.
Evangelicals and the GOP — An Unholy Alliance
Reading Time: 3 minutes What do Donald Trump and evangelicals have in common? Everything and nothing. Evangelicals are some of his most loyal supporters. But to those with only a passing familiarity with the New Testament, that’s a religious mystery.
The Danger of Exceptionalism
Reading Time: 3 minutes American exceptionalism, believing that the US is the greatest, #1, God’s country, increases the likelihood that some exceptionally awful things about America are ignored.
Political Violence Is Never the Answer
Reading Time: 2 minutes A senseless act of violence has left a US Congressman in critical condition and others injured. We pause to remember the admonition of Martin Luther King, Jr. that non-violence is both morally superior and the most powerful means for making change happen.
Is Criticizing Israel Anti-Semitic?
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is trying to raise awareness of and counter anti-Semitism. But its very definition of anti-Semitism has stretched the term to include any criticism of the nation of Israel, including its actions toward neighbors.