Summary: As America drifts into control by the Right through the “bottoms up” movement the Left has so longed dreamed of, many of our brightest minds describe with clarity and urgency what is happened. Such as in this review by Garry Wills of a powerful new book by E. J. Dionne. Whatever happens, we cannot …
Garry Wills explains The Triumph of the Hard Right Read More »
Summary: People with superpowers are running a multi-generational project to reshape America. They have the greatest of superpowers: money, which they’ve used to enlist experts to produce a large volume of research supporting their interests — overwhelming experts with different (ie, mainstream) viewpoints. Here we see two examples of their success. . . (1) Investing …
Second amendment scholarship (using money to reshape America) Read More »
“Entangled Giant“ By Garry Wills, New York Review of Books, 8 October 2009 — I strongly recommend reading this, about a subject of the greatest importance to Americans: change, the promise of change, and how do we force reform.  While the right-wing condemns Obama as a dangerous leftist radical, the reality is that the changes …
