Note: This piece originally ran in the August 18th edition of the Outsider Perspective. The 30,000-foot view of America right now What happened in Charlottesville, VA is an atrocity and a stain on America's moral fabric. My first gut reaction when watching reports … [Read more...]
Republicans at the Rubicon: Is the American Health Care Plan a Free-market solution or Medicare for all?
I wrote in Issue 39 of the Outsider Perspective about the new Obamacare replacement plan, the American Health Care Plan (AHCA). Due to time and space constraints, I wasn't able to dig into the broader philosophies animating the bill or the political tactics involved. I do that … [Read more...]
The Viral Picture of Omran Daqneesh Reveals America’s Moral Equivocation on Syria
Heartbreaking video of little boy dragged from Aleppo rubble shows Syrian children's suffering The above picture went viral the moment it hit social media. It shows a young child, Omran Daqneesh, after he was pulled from the rubble of his house after an airstrike in Aleppo, … [Read more...]
On Trump, Putin, and the Modern Inability to Understand the Tyrant
75 years ago in August 1941, George Orwell penned a critical essay on how liberalism struggled to understand Stalin and Hitler. The liberal he specifically takes issue with is H.G. Wells, author of "War of the World," "The Time Machine," and "The Invisible Man." Wells wrote … [Read more...]
Clinton Walks: The day American Justice was killed in the name of politics
The key sentence uttered by FBI Director James Comey today: ...although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we [the FBI] are expressing to [the Justice Department] our view that no charges are appropriate in this case. That is the only sentence … [Read more...]