Yes, they’re dog whistling for racism, sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and antisocialism but those are just overtones. We shouldn’t be distracted by them. The dog whistle’s fundamental tune is simply “Join us. We’re Gods. No deed too...

When they go low, should you go high or low?

It’s the patriarchy, stupid. I’m not a fan of kitchen sink political strategy. Just throwing every issue out unprioritized dilutes us. It feeds the right’s caricature of us as chicken littles running round with our heads cut off, bleeding hearts...

He demonstrates what tyranny is and that it can happen here.

True righteousness, like true bravery or true love, will cost you. You have to put risky, expensive effort into it or else it’s just lip service. We each have limited effort to expend. How we expend it is the true expression of our priorities....

To mistake honesty for truth leaves you wide open to deception.

If you still think this is just a fight between left and right, you’re not keeping up. It hasn’t been for a long time if it ever was. It’s patriotic Americans defending the country against a cult that has gotten way out of hand in large part...

Trump's remaining supporters aren't just living in a bubble. They’re a rolling fortress encircled by trump-card landmines, crushing and detonating everything in their way.

There are lots of things to try in our pressing mission to tool up quickly to disappoint trolls. Overwhelm and overload: Trolls often treat their game as a war of attrition, wearing you down with things you have to answer for and explain. Return...

The right has become an epidemic of exhibitionists. Right-wing trolls sidle up to people on TV, the internet and in person pretending that they want a reasoned discussion. When they’ve got your attention, they open their trench coats to show off...

True righteousness, like true bravery or true love, will cost you. You have to put risky, expensive effort into it or else it’s just lip service.  We each have limited effort to expend. How we expend it is the true expression of our priorities....

“The True Believers” is a psychology classic, a study undertaken by Eric Hoffer, a longshoreman moonlighting as a psycho-philosopher shortly after WWII. It profiles the characteristics of authoritarian fanatics, the kind we see falling for ISIS...

They're right and you're always wrong.

There is a simple, surefire formula for sycophants.

The devil needs updating. With what we know now we can do a whole lot better than the primitive authors of ancient texts ever did. The devil originates among the Essene Hebrews and really takes off among the early Christians, Luke in particular....