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January 2025

January 15, 2025

Trump’s Impact on Popular Culture

Donald Trump's political victory seems to be accompanied by a larger "vibe shift" in American...

January 03, 2025

The Workers of the World Are Uniting

"Workers of the world, unite!" So Marx concluded "The Communist Manifesto." Today, it is happening. ...

November 2024

November 12, 2024

Why Democrats Lost the Election

The Democrats were confident that they would sweep Donald Trump away. Instead, they suffered a...

September 2024

September 05, 2024

Leftwing Conservatism

To the many different kinds of conservatism today, we can add Leftwing Conservatism. This is...

April 2024

April 16, 2024

Beliefs as Status Symbols

"Conspicuous consumption" is the use of luxury possessions to signal to one and all your...

April 12, 2024

“White Rural Rage”

A new book entitled "White Rural Rage" calls rural Americans the biggest threat to democracy,...

August 2023

August 29, 2023

Oliver Anthony’s Critics from the Left, the Right, and the Religious

"Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony is a cry of the heart from...

March 2023

March 22, 2023

Americans vs. Both Political Parties

Republicans tend to be both social and economic conservatives. Democrats tend to be both social...

February 2023

February 02, 2023

The Difference Between Conservatives and Populists

Today's Republican Party is going through an identity crisis: Does it stand for smaller government,...

December 2022

December 12, 2022

An Alliance between the New Right and Marxism?

Some Marxists are seeing the working class populism of Donald Trump's supporters as today's expression...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

The Inflation Expansion Act

By executive order, President Biden is canceling much of the college debt incurred from student...

July 2022

July 27, 2022

“The Great Realignment”

Democrats are getting worried about a political realignment, as their base becomes whiter and more...

February 2022

February 21, 2022

Workers of the World Are Uniting

The "Freedom Convoy" of Canadian truck drivers is a classic job action, a protest of...

January 2022

January 17, 2022

How Should Churches Respond to Cultural Hostility?

Churches took one approach to relating to the culture when it was pro-Christian. It took...

November 2021

November 17, 2021

Overcoming Polarization

Polarization and conflict in a society are not necessarily bad, but they can be. Unity...

November 06, 2020

Republicans Should Be Party of Working Families vs. the “Bigs”

Here is a way forward for the Republicans: be the party of working families and...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

Bourgeois Leftists

Today's leftists tend to be from the affluent middle class, while the rightists tend to...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

Dying of Whiteness

The medical journal Lancet has published a positive review of a book that associates the...

December 2019

December 16, 2019

Lessons from the Conservative Landslide in the UK

Liberal-minded, non-religious Great Britain gave its Conservative Party and Trump-like Prime Minister Boris Johnson a...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Politics of the Promethean Self

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, is also a Christian cultural critic. In a recent speech, he...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

Rejection of All Affiliation, All Authority

As we keep hearing, Millennials don't affiliate with a church as much as other generations...

January 2019

January 28, 2019

Trump’s Base: Evangelicals Who Don’t Go to Church

That evangelicals and other conservative Christians tend to be such big supporters of the non-evangelical,...

January 07, 2019

Tucker Carlson: Conservatives Should Stop Idolizing Capitalism

Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, a conservative and a Trump supporter, gave an answer to...

December 2018

December 07, 2018

The New French Revolution

When Americans have a "tax revolt," they mostly complain and express their opinion by voting. ...

November 2018

November 13, 2018

Where the Action Is in Ministry

As I keep harping on in this blog, the white working class in rural small...

February 2018

February 05, 2018

Why Don’t Churches Try to Reach the Biggest Demographic of the Unchurched?

My granddaughter invited a friend to church yesterday. She was nine years old and she...

January 2018

January 03, 2018

The Marxists at the Gun Range

You might see some folks wearing red bandanas around their necks shooting their AK-47s at...

August 2017

August 08, 2017

The Democrats’ war against the working class

Donald Trump would seem to be very vulnerable politically, to say the least. But Democrats...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

Fear of the working class

The editor of a liberal website has written about a plumber he had called to fix...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

What Trump gets right

The empty factories have their windows broken and weeds are taking over the parking lots,...