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ON POLITICS:
Notes of a Reluctant Radical
"He alone is worthy of life and freedom, who each day does battle for them anew."
Goethe
Most of these brief pieces were written
specifically for the internet, appearing first either in The Online
Gadfly or The Crisis Papers. Some of this material has
been adapted and included in Conscience of a Progressive.
Accordingly, the first listing under these topics will be the relevant
chapters in the book.
Many Crisis Papers
editorial essays, not directly pertinent to politics, will be
found among
The Gadfly
Editorials.
All internet editorials (published
first by The Online Gadfly and The Crisis Papers) will be
identified by a header, "The Gadfly Bytes" along with the date of
publication. In addition, editorials that have been assimilated
into Conscience of a Progressive will be so indicated.
A complete list of
those Crisis Papers
internet essays
may
be found here.
The Right and the Left in a Nutshell (March, 2006)
Right vs. Left: The
Elements
(March, 2005)
The Crisis
Fruit
Flies in a Bottle (September, 2010)
American,
Inc. is Here: Get With the Program. (January, 2010)
Take
the Money and Run (March, 2009)
Act Two: The Struggle Continues
(December, 2008)
A New Day
Dawning (June, 2008)
The
Great Regression -- And The Road Back (March, 2008)
Where Are Our Heroes Today?
(June, 2006)
The 9/11 Conspiracy: A Skeptic’s View
(April, 2006)
The
Erosion of Trust (January, 2006)
Hinges of
History (July, 2005)
Last
Chance for Civilization (May, 2005)
Something's Gotta Give (January, 2005)
The Great Regression -- and the
Road Back. (March, 2004)
Do
We Still Have a Democracy? (November, 2004)
Can an
Entire Country Go Mad? (April, 2003)
The
Vulnerable Giant (February, 2003)
Despotism by Accident (September, 2002)
The
Oil Trap (August, 2002)
Foreign Relations, War and Peace
Let's End The New
Cold War Before it Heat's Up (March 5, 2015)
The War
Trap (December, 2009)
OmiGawd, Not Another Cold War! A Letter to My Friends in
Russia
(September, 2008)
Twenty-Twenty Hindsight, Blinded Foresight (November,
2007)
Oh What a
Lovely (Cold) War (March, 2007)
Only
Americans Can Restore America's Honor (January, 2007)
O Canada!
(August, 2006)
What
About the Russians? Personal Encounters (June, 2006)
Swords Into
Plowshares (May, 2006)
The View
from Abroad: A Personal Reflection (February, 2006)
The Indelible Evil of this War
(December, 2004)
Now We
Are the Redcoats (September, 2003)
Thoughts
on the Eve of a Disaster (March, 2003)
Forgive U.S. our
Trespasses (May, 2002)
Why Do They Hate Us So Much?
(2001)
The Holy
Land (November, 2001)
Warriors
of the Lord (December, 2001)
The Media
The Right to Know: Propaganda and the Media
(Chapter 18,
Conscience of a Progressive)
Nolo Contendere (May, 2010
Pity the Poor Mainstream Media!
(May, 2008)
Mainstream
Media to Bloggers: Bug Off (January, 2007)
Snobocracy: When “The Right People”
Run Washington (December, 2006)
All The News that Fits the Bush Agenda
(August, 2006)
Pravda on
the Potomac (September, 2004))
The Dragon at the Gate: The Media Problem
(January, 2003)
The Press and
Party Symbiosis (November, 2002)
The
American Samizdat (2002)
Elections
R. I. P. American Democracy
(October 26, 2012)
Election 2008: Who Decides? The People or the Programmers?
(October, 2008)
Election Fraud: Where’s the
Outrage?
(July, 2007)
An
Appearance of Guilt (March, 2006)
“Evidence? We Don’t Want
Your Stinkin’ Evidence!” (January, 2006)
"Shut
Up!," They Explain. (February, 2005)
Has the Case for Election Fraud been Refuted?
(January, 2005)
The
Democrats as "The Washington Generals" (December, 2004)
Do
We Still Have a Democracy (November, 2004)
The Greatest Story Never Told (March, 2003)
Civil Liberties and Dissent
On
Patriotism (January, 2002)
Free to Agree (December, 2001)
Republicans and The Right
Whose
"Liberty"? Whose "Freedom"? (May 13, 2015)
The Harder
They Fall (January 19, 2014)
Romney, Mormonism and "The Religious
Test." (Nov. 1, 2012)
Ayn Rand's
Excellent Proposal (March, 2010)
Don't Ridicule the Tea Baggers -- Recruit Them
(January, 2010)
On Behalf
of the Tea Bag Brigades: A Proposal (April 2009)
Take the
Money and Run (March, 2009)
Why Liberals are Not Libertarians (November, 2008)
The
Road to Catastrophe (October, 2008)
Privatization: The Key to the Coming Solar Age
(April, 2008)
My
Encounter with William F. Buckley, Jr. (March, 2008)
Privatized
Hell (November, 2007)
A
Failed Experiment (June, 2007)
The
Malleable World of the Neo-Cons (February, 2007)
Randville, Rawlsburg, and New Orleans (September, 2005)
Who
Lost New Orleans? (September, 2005)
A
Master Morality (March, 2005)
Bush's
"Gut" (October, 2004)
Letter
to a Republican Friend (August, 2004)
Henry
and George (June, 2004)
Dear CEO:
Is This Really What You Want?
(March, 2003)
The
State Religion (June, 2001)
Democrats and The Left
Stewart Lee
Udall -- 1920-2010. A Personal Memoir. (March, 2010)
"The Left"
(March 2009)
In a
Financial Emergency, Who Do you Call? The Democrats! (September, 2008)
Liberals
and Libertarians (May, 2007)
The Public Interest and the
Limits of Volunteerism (December, 2006)
The Democrats: Missing in Action
(March, 2006)
Consumer
or Citizen? (October, 2003)
Strategies for Underdogs (January, 2003)
Taking Stock (December, 2002)
Conscience of a Conservative (April, 2002)
Don't
Just Get Mad, Get Smart (March, 2002)
Lies, Propaganda, Corruption
The Language Trap: A Word About Words
(Chapter 2,
Conscience of a Progressive)
The Big Lie
(April, 2011)
"That's
Just Your Opinion" (June, 2008)
Newspeak
and the Corruption of Politics (April, 2006)
A
Modest Proposal (February, 2003)
Newspeak Lives! (December, 2002)
Blissful
Ignorance (May, 2001)
A
Bribe by Any Other Name (April, 2001)
The Culture War and The Religious
Right
Religion: How Would Jesus Vote?
(Chapter 20,
Conscience of a Progressive)
What a Friend We Have in Jesus (May, 2005)
Suckers
for Jesus (August, 2004)
What
Would Jesus Do? (October, 2002)
One Nation, Under God, Divisible (March, 2002)
About Russia
Let's End The New Cold War Before it Heat's Up (March 5,
2015)
Bungling Toward Oblivion: A Letter to my Friends in Russia
(July, 2014)
Thinking Like a Russian (March, 2014)
Russia -- An Appreciation (March, 2014)
What
About the Russians? Personal Encounters (June, 2006)
Swords
Into Plowshares (May, 2006)
See also the
С Дрнгой Стороны -- On the Other Hand.
The Russian Environment.
The Coup d'Etat --
2000
The Hijacked Election
(November, 2000)
A
Day of Infamy (Bush v. Gore).
(December, 2000) We Dissent (Collected Quotations
Regarding Bush v. Gore)
"None
Dare Call it Treason," by
Vincent Bugliosi (The Nation) Coping
with "Post Democracy"
(January, 2001) Post Modern Politics (April,
2001)
Lest
We Forget: Notes on the Late Election
(April, 2001)
Night Falls Upon American Democracy. (February, 2002) Bush
Win's Florida -- NOT! (February,
2002)
Non-Political Editorials
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