How Sports Saved 2016
"While I was proud that he held that standard and that so many admired him for it, I was also appalled that our standard for president...
Democrats Need to Win Elections, not Flip Electors
"This year, narrowly denying Trump a majority in the Electoral College would still probably result in Trump’s election via the...
Dear Media: Please Stop Normalizing the Alt-Right
"GOPers shouldn’t ‘normalize' the alt-right, and neither should the media imbue the movement with an outsized importance to feed its...
Christians and Politics
"We could pass every pro-life law, every pro-family law, we could get rid of poverty tomorrow--and that wouldn't make America Christian....
The Art of (Political) Correctness
Lost...in this battle over how our ideas (and ourselves) are presented and perceived, is what those ideas are. The primary focus of any...
Teaching the "Habits of Democracy"
“Politics isn’t dysfunction because of polarization, per se, so much as political detachment…'I think there’s some causation that...
America in the Shadow of France, 2002
“'Vote for the crook, not the fascist!' So urged the French newspaper Libération on the morning of April 23, 2002. The paper's editors...
Politics, Prosperity, and Philosophy
"No presidential candidate would call on doctors to practice medicine without biology or engineers to neglect calculus and physics. Nor...
Ad Hominem Politics
"Ad hominem statements allow candidates to 'win' a debate, as they depart with one-liners sure to appear on next morning’s front pages....
Debate 101: Five Tips to Equip Viewers to Watch, Analyze Presidential Contests
“[J]okes are usually pre-planned and are designed to provide good sound bites to the media. Humor is persuasive, but as voters, are we...