JARED O. BELL – Abraham Lincoln’s warning has never felt more urgent, a house divided against itself cannot stand. And America will not stand if we split into two realities, one grounded in evidence, the other built on delusions. Without shared truth, there can be no shared purpose, no shared future. Division doesn’t just weaken the house, it rots the foundation. Anti-intellectualism and demagoguery are the rot.
Tag: George Orwell
The Myth of the “Moderate Republican” — and Why It’s So Dangerous
NORMAN SOLOMON and JEFF COHEN – Applying adjectives like “moderate” to congressional Republicans is much worse than merely bad word choices. Our language “becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish,” George Orwell wrote, “but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” And dangerous ones.
More Afraid of Drones than of the Taliban: the Longest War is Not Over
BRIAN TERRELL – All of us in the U.S., the politicians, voters, tax payers, the investors and even those who protested and resisted it, are responsible for 20 years of war in Afghanistan. We are also all responsible for ending it.
Breaking Badlands: National Park Service Goes Yugely Rogue, Insists On Pesky Facts
ABBY ZIMET – Well this is cool: Trumpian efforts to block information on climate change – ’cause who needs science and/or a planet? – have sparked fierce, creative, heart-stirring resistance by the National Park Service and its many friends, suggesting the Revolution may yet be tweeted.
Olympic Capitalism: Bread and Circuses Without the Bread
DAVID SWANSON – The author of Brazil’s Dance With the Devil, Dave Zirin, must love sports, as I do, as billions of us do, or he wouldn’t keep writing about where sports have gone wrong. But, wow, have they gone wrong!