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Why are Young Men Drawn to Fascism? What Can We Do?
Why do they feel a need for violence to prove their manhood? Whats the connection between an angry Germany after the First World War and what many young men are feeling in 2025? Why do they see equal
Why is There So Much Fear in the Strongest Country in the World?
Fear of the other. Fear of woke, of LGBTQ+, of Black liberation, and of course the old big fear: Communism. In the age of the Cold War, right after WWII, Americans believed the Soviet Union was bankro
People and the Planet: Burned By Billionaires
Think billionaires have no impact on your life? Think again. We never blame billionaires for our day to day problems even though they deserve it. For example billionaires buy up housing projects then
Justice and Peace: What Teaching Yiddish Literature to Kids Offers
Under Trump 2.0, we adults are taught to fear The Other, we must become a monolinguistic culture: English over all. But during this week of Jewish high holy days, we ask what is this ancient language
Are High Tech Weapons The Answer to Low Budget Terrorism?
We all know what terrorism is. Weve seen it on the ground in Israel. Thats terrorism on the cheap. Is the answer the most modern ultra high tech bombers to decimate the enemy? For centuries, a key m
Gavin Newsom: Democrats Savior ’28?
The far right got a major boost with the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk. What used to be the Republican party is no more. The young mans appeal to other young men is a major hurdle for traditional patrio
Public Theater: A Way to Measure Democracy
When America was indeed great, the federal government brought theater to all people. Free. In a mirror opposite of Trump 2.0, under FDR there was the Federal Theater project in which one quarter of th
Historian Michael Kazin on America’s Enduring Actual Greatness
There is in fact a lush garden of American greatness and it is not MAGA. Though less well known, there is a proud history of successful dissent which does make America great. Military power and straig
Rising in the UK and the US: A Democratic Left
Englands Labour Party is a lot like Americas Democratic Party: all over the map. Both used to be the party of laboring people. The UKs current PM Kier Starmer won claiming to be of the left. Now he
The Trump Era and the Psychology of Moral Courage
Researchers are beginning to understand why some of us demonstrate what is called moral courage and others do not. In fact, most of us actually have a warped sense of our own moral courage. We like





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