Democracy has had a rough ride here in the U.S. In the hundred years from World War I to today, it has increased and declined. The misgivings that H.L. Mencken had about the workings of democracy as he saw it 50 years after the Civil War are still with us today.
The difference between conservatives and progressives or liberal and their electoral success or not is complicated. Lakoff attributes this to messaging and Haidt to moral differences.
Thinking about how our divided politics, which is so mixed up and tangled, that it looks similar to the kind of tangling that physicists and biologists deal with.
When is the right time to tell someone you’re gay? Two instances of when it was too late.
How do conservatives look at the concerns of progressive people? From the book The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray, like a bunch of complainers who don’t know how good they have it.
The stereotype of the gay man fated to be lonely and alone has with the gay rights movement gotten less true. There’s still a gay life after 40 or at least there can be.