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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year ago

Gutting the Kennedy Center

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

1 year 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…

2 years 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…

2 years ago

Tyranny and Chaos

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

2 years 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…

2 years 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…

2 years ago