James Preston Allen

Creating More Chaos

The media took the bait and covered the raids and protests in days of long coverage. It focused on the…

6 months ago

Roots of Radical Traditions

This is a time for the reset button on our liberties where we have the temerity to ask “What exactly…

7 months ago

American Ideals are Still Radical

  The Orange Felon is trying to reverse the last 100 years of progressive change As national radio commentator Thom…

7 months ago

A Prophet for Change

And while we are on the topic of religion, and this is Easter and Passover, it may be time to…

8 months ago

Gutting the Kennedy Center

It’s the Bill of Rights’ guarantee of freedom of expression. Without that protection — that first of our freedoms —…

8 months ago

Talking Trade, Kool-Aid and Gaslighting ― A Barstool Debate on Tariffs, Robots, and Reality

The problem is that even though this is a kind of performative political theater, real consequences will come. It will…

9 months ago

Unified by a Common Enemy

What we are seeing today in reaction to the fires and the coup is that at our core the average…

10 months ago

Tyranny and Chaos

A free democratic nation cannot remain free without a free and unfettered press, the founding fathers warned. And yet we…

10 months ago

From Fiction to Reality

Yet, Jan. 20, 2025 was presaged by a long-forgotten 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel called, It Can’t Happen Here. And now…

11 months ago

The Irony of the New Year

The true irony of these recent events is that we’ve lived through the same kinds of betrayals of democracy for…

11 months ago