Ceremony of Innocence
At noon on Wednesday, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. will take the oath of office on the Capitol...
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Category: Politics
A Very American Putsch
The mob of maybe two thousand rioters, egged-on by the inflammatory rhetoric of their political...
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Trumpism is the Symptom of the Cause
I read Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste last week, pondering the ways and means by which caste, as...
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“2020, Bella Ciao (2020, Farewell my Beautiful)* — A Modern Adaptation,” by Micheline Ishay
One morning I woke up I saw a dandelion in my cup A sign of a new invader Spreading as a crusader...
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Deb Haaland’s Appointment is Important, but Long Overdue
President-Elect Joe Biden made an historic choice yesterday in picking Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) to...
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6 December 1989: École Polytechnique Massacre, Montréal
Today is Sunday, 6 December 2020. Thirty-one years ago, 6 December fell on a Wednesday. On that...
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Playing Politics With People’s Lives
I was scrolling through my Twitter feed yesterday, when I came across this gem. Amir Attaran is a...
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Repudiating the Church of Trump
I am a 40 year old white conservative Christian male who lives in a very small town in rural...
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“Unity” and “Healing” at What Price?
“This is the time to heal in America,” Joe Biden said in his victory speech Saturday night. “I...
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It’s the Morning After… And It’s Worse Than You Think
Whatever happens over the next days and weeks, as absentee and mail-in ballots are tallied, as the...
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The Sport of Democracy’s Final Minutes
It all comes down to today, to the final match-up that will determine the champion of the Sport of...
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Jeremy Corbyn and the Banality of Antisemitism
I have been reading comments in social media from many of my Gentile friends, colleagues, and...
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Woe Canada: Canada’s Race Problem
Yesterday, the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Brenda Lucki, took umbrage with...
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Boiling a Frog: The Death of Democracy by Degrees
On this day eighty years ago, with no possibility of escape, and death in a Nazi concentration...
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Should we vote for Biden? Yes. Should we be happy about it? No
Throughout the primary, I argued with everyone from my editor here at The Typescript to my best...
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Read This To the End: An Essay on Politics
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate landed in...
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Washington NFL Team’s Name Change is Long Overdue
Earlier this month, the world started to come apart for the Washington NFL franchise and its owner...
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The Unsinkable Donald Trump
This one is going to sink him. This broadside hit below the waterline, and Trump going down!...
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“Aux Barricades!” The White Male Radical’s Melodrama of Commitment
It was sometime between the night of May 28, when the 3rd Precinct station went up in flames in...
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Policing: Something Has to Change
Over the past weeks we have seen unprecedented unrest in the United States, and around the world,...
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