Science vs Opinion: Consequences
These days it seems like there has been a death of expertise.
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As presidential election approaches, my stomach quivers. Here’s how to steady our nerves in Kansas
If I could take any time off from being a journalist or feeling interested in politics, it would be the October before a presidential election.No disrespect to those of you who find these weeks thrilling and exciting.
Consider these lingering mysteries of life and politics
This year I will celebrate my 70th birthday.
Plains Fok: Where Wit Clashes with Wit
It was a delight to discover that my great grand-uncle John, to whom English was a second language, was president of the literary society in his local school district in the 1890s.
Fake Populism is RealPolitik
If there’s a single global through line to the politics of the last decade, that through line is the continuing fight over something called, by both its supporters and opponents, “populism.”Donald Trump (the US).
Faith and harvest
Corn harvest is ramping up across Kansas and while every field will be different, reports from across the state range from better than expected to a great crop.
I’m worrying, yet again, that the novel is dying. This time, streaming TV may be the killer.
As another evening arrives, the dishes are done, the kids are asleep and the laptop is shut.
Continued us/them rhetoric that has divided us
Are you a Republican/Democrat?
Plains Folk: Buzkashi
The national sport of Afghanistan is buzkashi, a sort of polo but without sticks (mallets) or a ball.
Your Vote Is Your Voice … And That’s All It Is
The best form of organization, Samuel Edward Konkin wrote in 1980’s New Libertarian Manifesto, “is a Libertarian Alliance in which you steer the members from political activity (where they have blindly gone seeking relief from oppression) and focus on education, publicity, recruitment and perhaps some anti-political campaigning (i.e.