In November of 2020, a freelance journalist named Derek Robertson predicted that Joe Biden’s ongoing return to “normalcy” would put an end to the culture-war rhetoric on the far right. That was pretty dumb, and he’s written a lengthy description of all the ways he was wrong. Robertson might not be the only person who…

Politicians and the press keep using the word “progressive” but they never really define it, and given the widely varying political positions of people who are labeled progressive, the word has become somewhat meaningless. Let’s look at three different apparent meanings of “progressive” and where they fall on the American political spectrum (which skews right)…

In the wake of the 2016 election, there were a lot of self-described reasonable liberals claiming that describing Trump as a fascist was destructive hyperbole. While it is certainly a bad idea to just call everyone you don’t like a fascist, it seemed like in this case, people were using a lot of overly specific…

The conservative assault on reality continues this week with right-wing parents who believe elementary schools are teaching critical race theory (CRT), adding selective emotional learning (SEL) to the list of things that set them off. Unlike CRT, SEL really is part of elementary school curricula. According to an NBC News article, it is: …a teaching…