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Take a Deep Breath (We’re Not in a Constitutional Crisis)

By E. Ryan Haffner | Nov 13, 2020 at 10:34 PM

In his most recent column for Time, David French sounds the alarm under the heading “Only the Right-Wing Media Can Save America From Trump’s Conspiracies.” In fearing the conspiracies of the MAGA-ites, the opposition folks such as French keep creating their own conspiracy theories of sorts that are just as unhelpful. Let’s settle down both wings of the Vast Conspiracy, shall we?

The Electoral Solace

Voters Rejected the Worst Distortions of Trump and Trumpism

By E. Ryan Haffner | Nov 04, 2020 at 11:07 PM

So, here we are. The day after and, much like 2000, with a strong sense of what the end will be but delayed closure on the race. There is plenty of reason to believe when the ballots are crunched and the lawyers’ last shots are fired that there will be a President Biden. That is not the end I wanted – or am even still continuing to hope for – but even if that end comes, I find some solace in two telling aspects of the results we can see.

My Take on the Vice Presidential Debate

By Jason Kettinger | Oct 09, 2020 at 11:38 AM

In terms of civility, style, and substance, this debate was light-years ahead of the presidential contest last week. I suppose we should be thankful, but it feels perverse to reward those who have lowered the bar enough to finally step over it.

A Horrible Debate Provided Cover for a Horrible Idea

By E. Ryan Haffner | Sep 30, 2020 at 11:42 AM

Joe Biden could easily take the award for the rudest Presidential candidate in debate in my memory. Put the Vice President up against past nominees and that would be nearly undeniable. Except that he was debating the President, who didn’t want to lose out on that award. Most disturbingly, in that melee, the President’s horrid performance allowed one of the worst ideas ever brought up on a debate floor to slide by and it could easily mean we all lose.

I Don’t Want to Vote Biden. Here’s Why I Will.

By Jason Kettinger | Sep 24, 2020 at 9:59 AM

You know, I don’t agree with Joe Biden about abortion, the redefinition of marriage— and it’s important to call it that— and so-called “religious liberty”. I voted for George W. Bush twice. I’m voting for Joe Biden.

I Don’t Want to Vote Trump. Here’s Why I Will.

By E. Ryan Haffner | Sep 08, 2020 at 4:19 PM

I have a confession to make that will make virtually everyone mad. I think Donald Trump is uncouth, has worsened the political discourse in our country and continually says things about everyone from POW’s to immigrants that make me cringe. I am also planning to follow up my 2016 vote for the man with a 2020 vote for the same. Yes, I am amongst the reluctant Trump voters and here’s why.

The Vice Presidential Selection

It ought to be Kamala Harris

By Jason Kettinger | Aug 11, 2020 at 9:07 AM

I thought it should be her long ago. I thought that if I were Biden, I would choose Harris. I also believed that Joe Biden would have to do something to placate moderates, and while Senator Harris is not a moderate in any coherent sense, she runs in that lane, especially with regard to presentation.

Freedom and the Clash of Visions in the Age of Fracture

By Jason Kettinger | Aug 07, 2020 at 4:13 PM

I read with great interest the latest column by our esteemed Editor-In-Chief. There ought to be a theoretical neutrality, at least with regard to the government, and the potential regulation of speech. We would like to believe that the cure for bad speech is not less speech, but more and better speech. We would like to believe that in a theoretically pluralistic society, the true, the good, and the beautiful will eventually win out over the false, the bad, and the ugly. The most profound question is whether these things we would like to believe have ever been true.

Freedom in the Deplatforming Era

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 28, 2020 at 5:43 PM

The pandemic has been a test tube for a rapidly developing process by which social media platforms – particularly the overwhelmingly dominant Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – plow ahead with the purging of false information. There is good reason for their efforts: they created platforms that make the spread of even the craziest ideas incredibly easy. Those who oppose these fringe ideas celebrate as the platforms shred ideas deemed dangerous, but have we genuinely considered the cost?

Out on a Limb: Romney Will Win

By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 06, 2012 at 4:50 AM

Here we are on the eve of the election and, like so many recent presidential elections, we are gathered around, watching a handful of swing states that hold the future of the presidency in their collective hands. Though the polls make this race look too close to call, I'm going to call it: Romney wins.

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