Governance. Nationalism.
Lack of Trust. Lack of Consensus.
We might do a session or so on the issue that has been troubling me for some time. Why we do not trust anyone anymore. We seem to have lost our consensus about education, politics, the environment, climate change, scientists in general, religion, the Church, foreign policy, immigration, prison, race, the schools, unions, university, health care, energy, news, corporations, congress, supreme court, president, governor, wall street, Chamber of Commerce, and town council. Why? What has gone wrong? Are we in transition? Heading for revolution? Are there dozens of explanations or an underlying cause? ~ Ed Knox
Consider adding the NFL, college sports, ESPN, the Tour d'France, FIFA, to the list of institutions that have been tainted by corruption.
Questions:
Questions:
- Do we have a problem in our society?
- What is it?
- Which institutions do you trust?
- Which do you distrust?
- Cause of the problem?:
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Suggested reading & research from Ed Knox
Poll and a Quiz:
- "Perceptions are not reality: Things the world gets wrong," on Ipsos MORI, Oct 29, 2014
- February 23, 2020 post by Heather Cox Richardson on the "Letters from an American" blog
- "Across the World, Trumpism Has Been Normalized" by Fareen Zakaria on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Jan 24, 2020
- "Democracy Countries 2019" on "World Population Review," Nov 4, 2019 (Click here for a printable summary created by Judi Stoy)
- "The Whistleblower Story: Institutional Flaws and Ukraine’s Predicament" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Sept 23, 2019
- "The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line" by Colin Woodard in "The New York Times," July 30, 2018
- "No, the Divide in American Politics Is Not Rural vs. Urban, and Here’s the Data to Prove It" by Colin Woodard on "Medium.com," Nov 8, 2017
- "The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line" by Colin Woodard in "The New York Times," July 30, 2018
- "What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?" by Miranda Carter in "The New Yorker," June 6, 2018
- "How Populism Helps Capitalism" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," May 7, 2019
- "Seven Myths the Trump Presidency Has Destroyed" by Andrew Bacevich on "Lobe Log," April 16, 2019
- "Seven Myths the Trump Presidency Has Destroyed" by Andrew Bacevich on "Lobe Log," April 16, 2019
- "The Strongmen Strike Back" by Robert Kagan on "Brookings" - first published in "The Washington Post," March 14, 2019
- "We may be headed toward a political realignment" by David Ignatius in "The Washington Post," March 12, 2019
- "The Power of Petty Personal Rage" by Paul Krugman in "The New York Times," March 11, 2019
- "Socialism and the 2020 American Election" by Roger Cohen in"The New York Times," March 8, 2019
- "Diversity Can Save Democracy" by Fareed Zakaria on "Fareed's Global Briefing," March 8, 2019
- "Tariff Man Has Become Deficit Man" by Paul Krugman in "The New York Times," March 7, 2019
- "The Oppression of the Supermajority" by Tim Wu in "The New York Times," March 5, 2019
- "The GOP is the party of Trump — but not for the reasons anti-Trump conservatives think" by Henry Olsen in "The Washington Post," Feb 26, 2019
- "Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism" by Jill Lepore in "The New Yorker," Feb 18 & 25, 2019
- "Trump’s war on socialism will fail" by E.J. Dionne in "The Washington Post," Feb 10, 2019
- "What's Inside 'The New Nationalism'" issue of "Foreign Affairs" by Gideon Rose, March/April 2019
- "A New Americanism: Why a Nation Needs a National Story" by Jill Lepore in "Foreign Affairs," March/April 2019
- "The Importance of Elsewhere: In Defense of Cosmopolitanism" by Kwame Anthony Appiah in "Foreign Affairs," March/April 2019
- "Why Nationalism Works: And Why It Isn’t Going Away" by Andreas Wimmer in "Foreign Affairs," March/April 2019
- "False Flags: The Myth of the Nationalist Resurgence" by Jan-Werner Müller in "Foreign Affairs," March/April 2019
- "This Is Your Brain on Nationalism: The Biology of Us and Them" by Robert Sapolsky in "Foreign Affairs," March/April 2019
- "Building a Better Nationalism: The Nation’s Place in a Globalized World" by Yael Tamir in "Foreign Affairs," March/April 2019
- "The Broken Bargain: How Nationalism Came Back" by Jack Snyder in "Foreign Affairs," March/April 2019
- "Blood for Soil: The Fatal Temptations of Ethnic Politics" by Lars-Erik Cederman in "Foreign Affairs," March/April 2019
- "Trump Versus the Socialist Menace" by Paul Krugman in "The New York Times," Feb 7, 2019
- "'Ominous' decline of global democracy" by David Lawler on "Axios World," Feb 7, 2019
- "Autocrats meet growing resistance with harsher crackdowns" by Joshua Kurlantzick on "Axios," Feb 6, 2019
- "How Rosenstein’s Firing Could lead to Trumpian Martial Law and Blood in the Streets" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Sept 22, 2018
- "After Trump: The Donald in the Rearview Mirror" by Andrew J. Bacevich on "TomDispatch," Sept 18, 2018
- "The Threat to Democracy Isn’t Just from Where You Think" by Fareed Zakaria (in "The Washington Post") on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Sept 14, 2018
- "When Two Tribes Go to War" by Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld (in "The Atlantic") on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Sept 14, 2018
- "After Trump: The Donald in the Rearview Mirror" by Andrew J. Bacevich on "TomDispatch," Sept 11, 2018
- "We have to look beyond the madness" by Fareed Zakaria om "fareedzakaria.com," Sept 6, 2018
- "How to Play Our Way to a Better Democracy" by Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff in "The New York Times," Sept 1, 2018
- "The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult" by Pankaj Mishra in "The New York Times," Aug 30, 2018
- "Why It Can Happen Here" by Paul Krugman in "The New York Times," Aug 27, 2018
- "When Is American Democracy No Longer Democratic?" by Max Fisher and Amanda Taub in "The New York Times: The Interpreter," June 29, 2018
- "Corruption Perceptions Index" on "Transparency International" <undated>
- "Trump: Trying to Remake America in His Own Image" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times, June 12, 2018
- "One Reform to Save America" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," May 31, 2018
- "The Moral Rot That Threatens America" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," May 18, 2018
- "How Trump’s 2000 lies are Termites chomping at the Foundations of Democracy" by Karen J. Greenberg on "Informed Comment," May 18, 2018
- "Is Trump the Second Coming of Reagan?" by Susan B. Glasser in "The New Yorker: The Daily," May 18, 2018
- "Trump vs. the 'Deep State'” by Evan Osnos in "The New Yorker," May 21, 2018
- "Michael Hayden: The End of Intelligence" by Michael V. Hayden in "The New York Times," April 28, 2018
- "John Cuneo’s 'The Swamp'” by Françoise Mouly in "The New Yorker," by May 14, 2018
- "Donald Trump and the Next Crash: Making the Fed an Instrument for Disaster" by Nomi Prins on "TomDispatch," April 26, 2018
- "Former CIA director John Brennan delivers brutal assessment of Trump: 'Unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical'" by Bryan Logan on "aol.com," March 3, 2018
- "Democracy Is Decaying Worldwide. America Isn’t Immune." by Fareed Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com," Feb 23, 2018
- "The Damaging Decline Of HPSCI" by Paul R. Pillar "Lobe Log," Feb 1, 2018
- "The Fascist underpinnings of Trump’s State of the Union" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Jan 31, 2018
- "Is the Populist Revolt Over? Not if Robots Have Their Way" by Eduardo Porter in "The New York Times," Jan 30, 2018
- "Open Societies Under Siege" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Jan 26, 2018
- "Bacevich And Mearsheimer On Year One Of The Trump Administration" by Derek Davison on "Lobe Log," Jan 22, 2018
- "Year One in Donald Trump’s World" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Jan 20, 2018
- "Rare Glimpse Into Inner Workings Of American Empire In Middle East" by Edward Hunt on "Lobe Log," Jan 19, 2018
- "Expect 2018 to Be More Sane? Sorry, It’s Not Going to Happen" by Farhad Manjoo in "The New York Times," Jan 3, 2018
- "GOP Tax Bill Would Usher In a Bleak Future" by Fareed Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com," Dec 14, 2017
- "The Insurrectionists" by John Feffer on Lobe Log," Dec 7, 2017
- "The Break-Up of America: Donald Trump and the Fourth Great Shattering" by John Feffer on "Informed Comment," Oct 25, 2017
- "Political failure through a business lens" by Christina Pazzanese on "Harvard Gazette," Sept 13, 2017
- "The Mealy-Mouthed Cowardice of America’s Elites After Charlottesville" by Fareed Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com," Aug 18, 2017
- "Trump Has Been Making Ominous Threats His Whole Life" by Fared Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com" by Aug 10, 2017
- "Slouching Toward Mar-a-Lago: The Post-Cold-War Consensus Collapses" by Andrew J. Bacevich on "tomdispatch.com," Aug 8, 2017
- "Before Manliness Lost Its Virtue" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Aug 1, 2017
- "New questions in Russia probe" by Christina Pazzanese in "Harvard Gazette," July 20, 2017
- "Donald Trump's Lost Opportunity" by Fareed Zakaria on "FareedZakaria.com," July 20, 2017
- "Donald Trump Poisons the World" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," June 2, 2017
- "Trump's Incompetence Won't Save Our Democracy" by Masha Gessen in "The New York Times," June 2, 2017
- "Top 5 Climate Catastrophes to which Trump just Doomed his own Supporters" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," June 2, 2017
- "The hidden dangers of Fukuyama-like triumphalism" by Branko Milanovic on "globalinequality," May 30, 2017
- "The Politics of Clan: The Adventures of Jared Kushner" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," May 30, 2017
- "A Road Trip Through Rusting and Rising America" by Thomas L. Friedman in"The New York Times," May 24, 2017
- "The First Theatrical Landmark of the Trump Era" by Michael Schulman in "The New Yorker," March 27, 2017
- "2017’s Most & Least Federally Dependent States" by John S. Kiernan on "WalletHub.com," March 21, 2017
- "The Trump Administration Talent Vacuum" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," May 19, 2017
- "The Sadism of creeping Dictatorship" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," May 11, 2017
- "The Coming Muslim Century: Bad news for President Bannon" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," April 19, 2017
- "I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong." by Rick Perlstein in "The New York Times Magazine," April 11, 2017
- "Bannon's Worldview: Dissecting the Message of 'The Fourth Turning'" by Jeremy W. Peters in "The New York Times," April 8, 2017
- "The Coming Incompetence Crisis" by David Brooks in "The New York Times,"1 April 7, 2017
- "Jared Kushner, Man of Steel" by Frank Bruni in "The New York Times," April 5, 2017
- "The Bloodstained Rise of Global Populism" by Alfred W. McCoy on "LobeLog Foreign Policy, April 4, 2017
- "The Hundred Days From Hell" by David Faris on "Informed Comment," April 3, 2017
- "Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel" by Adam Entous, Greg Miller, Kevin Sieff and Karen DeYoung in "The Washington Post," April 3, 2017
- "Did Gorka Greenlight Hungary’s Move Against University?" by Jim Lobe on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," April 3, 2017
- "When the President Is Ignorant of His Own Ignorance" by Thomas B. Edsall in "The New York Times," March 30, 2017
- "On Russia, watch the ball" by John Laidler in "Harvard Gazette," March 29, 2017
- "Devin Nunes Is Dangerous" by Frank Bruni in "The New York Times," March 29, 2017
- "The House just voted to wipe away the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections" by Brian Fung in "The New York Times," March 28, 2017
- "It’s Class Warfare, Stupid. The GOP crusade against Health Care" by Jua
- "The Offender of the Free World" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," March 28, 2017
- "America Must Defend Itself Against the Real National Security Menace" by Fareed Zakaria on "FareedZakaria.com," March 10, 2017
- Cole on "Informed Comment," March 25, 2017
- "What the G.O.P. Doesn’t Get About Who Pays for Health Care” by Adam Davidson in "The New Yorker," March 23, 2017
- "American Democracy: Not So Decadent after All" by Charles Krauthammer in "National Review," March 23, 2017
- "Two Glimpses of a Grim Post-American Future" by David Frum in "The Atlantic," March 22, 2017
- "History’s Guide to Contested Liberalism" by A. Bradley Potter on "War on the Rocks," March 22, 2017
- "Calling On a Few Good Men" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," March 22, 2017
- "Making America Weaker" by Robert E. Hunter on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," March 21, 2017
- "The American presidency is shrinking before the world’s eyes" by Michael Gerson in "The Washington Post," March 20, 2017
- "Trump Stays Buggy" by Gail Collins in "The New York Times," March 17, 2017
- "Books Can Take You Places Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You to Go" by Hisham Matar in "The New York Times," March 16, 20
- "The Blow-It-All-Up Billionaires" by Vicky Ward on "The Huffington Post," March 17, 2017
- "Let Bannon Be Bannon!" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," March 17, 2017
- "This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World" by Paul Blumenthal on "The Huffington Post," March 6, 2017
- "Into the Void, With Steve King" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," March 14, 2017
- "There Is No Deep State" by David Remnick in "The New Yorker," March 20, 2017
- "Forget Liberalism, Let’s Redefine Conservatism" by Graham E. Fuller on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," March 13, 2017
- "If We Don't Act Now, Fascism Will Be on Our Doorstep, Says Yale Historian" by Steven Rosenfeld on "AlterNet," March 13, 2017
- "What Is Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions' Shared Vision for Remaking America?" interview with Emily Bazelon on NPR's "Fresh Air," March 9, 2017
- "Donald Trump’s Worst Deal" by Adam Davidson in "The New Yorker," March 13, 2017
- "Why Trump Likes the Military" by Paul R. Pillar on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," March 5, 2017
- "Beware the Blob: How Not to Oppose Donald Trump" by Marc Lynch & Robert Malley on Carnegie Endowment for International Peace," by Feb 23, 2017
- "Trump’s Many Shades of Contempt" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," March 3, 2017
- "Throwing More Money at the Military Won’t Make It Stronger" by Fareed Zakaria on "FareedZakaria.com," March 2, 2017
- "Tony Blair's Lesson for President Trump" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," March 1, 2017 (see also "Tony Blair’s Brexit speech, full transcript")
- "How Trump Will Hurt My Border Town" by Veronica Escobar in "The New York Times," March 1, 2017
- "The Enlightenment Project" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 28, 2017
- "Tony Blair’s Brexit speech, full transcript" in "The Spectator," Feb 17, 2017 (see also Thomas L. Friedman commentary, "Tony Blair's Lesson for President Trump")
- "ADL Demands That Gorka Disavow ‘Anti-Semitic Hate Groups’" by Eli Clifton on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Feb 24, 2017
- "Stephen K. Bannon's CPAC Comments, Annotated and Explained" by Max Fisher in "The New York Times," Feb 24, 2017
- "The Islamophobic Huckster in the White House" by Steven Simon & Daniel Benjamin in "The New York Times," Feb 24, 2017
- "Trump's Blistering Speech at CPAC Follows Bannon's Blueprint" by Glenn Thrush in "The New York Times," Feb 24, 2017
- "The Shallow State" by David Rothkopf in "Foreign Policy," Feb 22, 2017 (for PDF file, click here .)
- "Trump Voters Are Not the Enemy" by Nicholas Kristof in "The New York Times," Feb 23, 2017
- "The National Death Wish" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 24, 2017
- "Rising Walls, Falling Bridges" by Timothy Egan in "The New York Times," Feb 24, 2017
- "Holding Trump Accountable" by George Packer in "The New Yorker," Feb 27, 2017
- "Michael Flynn, General Chaos" by Nicholas Schmidle in "The New Yorker," Feb 27, 2017
- "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, At the Altar of American Greatness" by Andrew Bacevich on "tomdispatch.com," Feb 23, 2017
- "Bannon vows a daily battle for the ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’" by Philip Rucker & Robert Costa in "The Washington Post," Feb 23, 2017
- "The United States of Permanent War" by Edward Hunt on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Feb 22, 2017
- "Meet the 5 Trump Administrations" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Feb 22, 2017
- "‘With Such a People You Can Then Do What You Please’" by James Fallows in "The Atlantic," Feb 21, 2017
- "The Social Scientific Case Against a Muslim Ban" by Sarah Lyons-Padilla & Michelle J. Gelfand in "The New York Times," Feb 18, 2017
- "Trying (and Failing) Not To Fear So Much About Trump" by Adam Gopnik in "The New Yorker," Feb 17, 2017
- "Bring On the Special Prosecutor" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Feb 17, 2017
- "The Silence of the Hacks" by Paul Krugman in "The New York Times," Feb 17, 2017
- "What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 17, 2017
- "Trump must banish Bannon — or his presidency is doomed" by Jennifer Rubin in "The Washington Post," Feb 17, 2017
- "Trump convinces fewer and fewer Americans that his administration is ‘a fine-tuned machine’" by Jennifer Rubin in "The Washington Post," Feb 16, 2017
- "Trump Is Putting On a Great Circus, But What About His Promises?” by Fareed Zakaria on "FareedZakaria.com," Feb 17, 2017
- "As Leaks Muliply, Fears of a 'Deep State' in America" by Amanda Taub & Max Fisher in "The New York Times," Feb 16, 2017
- "We have at most a year to defend American democracy, perhaps less" by Matthias Kolb on "Süddeutsche Zeitung," Feb 10, 2017
- "White House Plans to Have Trump Ally Review Intelligence Agencies" by James Risen & Matthew Rosenberg in "The New York Times," Feb 15, 2017
- "In the early weeks of the new administration, the humbling of a president" by Dan Balz in "The Washington Post," Feb 14, 2017
- "What Trump Is Doing Is Not O.K." by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Feb 14, 2017
- "How Should One Resist the Trump Administration?" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 14, 2017
- "Questions about Judgment: Trump appointed Flynn in the First Place" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Feb 14, 2017
- "Can a ‘Wrecking Ball’ of a President Evolve?" by Susan B. Glasser on "Politico," Feb 13, 2017
- "Which Dystopian Novel Got It Right: Orwell's '1984' or Huxley's 'Brave New World'?" by Charles McGrath in "The New York Times," Feb 13, 2017
- "Turmoil at the National Security Council, From the Top Down" by David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt & Peter Baker in "The New York Times," Feb 12, 2017
- "Trump's Grand Strategic Train Wreck" by Colin Kahl & Hal Brands in "Foreign Policy," Jan 31, 2017 (for PDF file, click here)
- "How Bannon’s Navy service during the Iran hostage crisis shaped his views" by Michael Kranish & Craig Whitlock in "The Washington Post," Feb 10, 2017
- "Steve Bannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists" by Jason Horowitz in "The New York Times," Feb 10, 2017
- "When the Fire Comes" by Paul Krugman in "The New York Times," Feb 10, 2017
- "A Gift for Donald Trump" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 10, 2017
- "And Then the Breitbart Lynch Mob Came for Me" by Rosa Brooks on "Moyers & Company" from "Foreign Policy," Feb 6, 2017
- "Stephen Bannon’s Words and Actions Don’t Add Up" by Fareed Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com," Feb 9, 2017
- "Connecting Trump's Dots" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Feb 8, 2017
- "Trump's Executive Orders Don't Reveal a Coherent Strategy" by Paul Salem in the "Middle East Institute Monday Briefing," Feb 7, 2017
- "A Quiet Giant of Investing Weighs In on Trump" by Andrew Ross Sorkin in "The New York Times," Feb 6, 2017
- "Trump’s Radical Anti-Americanism" by Adam Gopnik in "The New Yorker," Feb 13 & 20, 2017
- "Where History Is Being Made" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 7, 2017
- "What Steve Bannon Wants You to Read" By Eliana Johnson and Eli Stokols on "Politico," Feb 7, 2017
- "Steve Bannon Carries Battles to Another Influential Hub: The Vatican" by Jason Horowitz in "The New York Times," Feb 7, 2017
- "Sorry, President Trump. I Agree with You." by Fareed Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com," Feb 2, 2017
- "Tom Countryman’s Farewell: A Diplomat’s Love Letter to America" on "Diplopundit," Jan 31, 2017
- "In Life, Who Wins, the Fox or the Hedgehog?" by Alison Gopnik in "The Wall Street Journal," Aug 15, 2014
- "A Return to National Greatness" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 3, 2017
- "What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class" by Joan C. Williams in "Harvard Business Review," Nov 10, 2016
- "Case Study in Chaos: How Management Experts Grade a Trump White House" by James B. Stewart in "The New York Times," Feb 2, 2017
- "The Peculiar Populism of Donald Trump" Thomas B. Edsall in "The New York Times," Feb 2, 2017
- "Trump Pushes Dark View of Islam to Center of U.S. Policy-Making" by Scott Shane, Matthew Rosenberg & Eric Lipton in "The New York Times," Feb 1, 2017
- "How to Build an Autocracy" by David Frum in "The Atlantic," March 2017
- "A Concerned Citizen's Plea to America's Business Leaders" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Feb 1, 2017
- "Trump Can’t Make America Great Again without Immigrants" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Feb 1, 2017
- "Boston College historian call Trump tactics 'shock events'" by Michelle Robertson of the "San Francisco Chronicle" on "SFGate," Jan 31, 2017
- "The Republican Fausts" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Jan 31, 2017
- "Donald Trump, Our ‘America First’ President, Is Profoundly Un-American" by Jonathan Alter on "The Daily Beast," Jan 31, 2017
- "Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Who Defied Him" by Michael D. Shear, Mark Landler, Matt Apuzzo & Eric Lichtblau in "The New York Times," Jan 30, 2017
- "The Sadism of Racist Exclusion: Courts Temporarily Block Trump" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Jan 29, 2017
- "In Defense of a Liberal Order" by Justus de Visser on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Jan 27, 2016
- "The Closing of Trump's America" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Jan 27, 2017
- "America, You Look Like an Arab Country Right Now" by Karl Sharro on "Politico," Jan 22, 2017
- "The Banal Belligerence of Donald Trump" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Jan 24, 2017
- "Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter on Leading Through Clarity and Conduct" by Adam Bryant in "The New York Times," Jan 20, 2017
- "The Internal Invasion" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Jan 20, 2017
- "Are You Not Alarmed?" by Charles M. Blow in "The New York Times," Jan 19, 2017
- "Donald the Unready" by Paul Krugman in "The New York Times," Jan 20, 2017
- "Trump does Poor imitation of Tin-Pot Dictator at 'Press Conference'" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Jan 12, 2017
- "The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer" by Glenn Greenwald on "The Intercept," Jan 11, 2017
- "Bannon versus Trump" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Jan 10, 2017
- "Meryl Streep calls out Trump: Having Bully-in-Chief Coarsens whole Culture" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Jan 9, 2017
- "How the Arrogance of Cold War Triumph brought us this Low" by Andrew J. Bacevich on "Informed Comment," Jan 9, 2017
- "Social Instability Lies Ahead, Researcher Says" by Peter Turchin on "UConn Today," Dec 27, 2016
- "A Threat to U.S. Democracy: Political Dysfunction" by Eduardo Porter in "The New York Times," Jan 3, 2017
- "Top Eight Mideast Stories of 2016 that Shaped our World" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Dec 31, 2016
- "Illiberal Democracy In America" by Fareed Zakaria on "FareedZakaria.com," Dec 30, 2016
- "5 ways of redrawing the U.S. electoral map that actually make sense" by Ana Swanson in "The Washington Post," Dec 19, 2016
- "Dancing in a Hurricane" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Nov 19, 2016 (Click here for pdf.)
- "What Americans Against Trump Can Learn from the Failures of the Israeli Opposition" by Bernard Avishai in "The New Yorker," Nov 18, 2016
- "The Plot Against America or the Plot by America?" by Mustafa Akyol in "The New York Times," Oct 28, 2016
- "The GOP is history. What about the country?" by Fareed Zakaria on "FareedZakaria.com," Oct 13, 2016
- "Howard Dean: How to Move Beyond the Two-Party System" by Howard Dean in "The New York Times," Oct 7, 2016
- "The US is your know-it-all friend who should just keep his mouth shut" by Stephen Kinzer in "The Boston Globe," Sept 29, 2016
- "Can the Center Hold? State Fragility Comes to the U.S. and France" by Judah Grunstein on "World Politics Review," Sept 28, 2016
- "Can the Center Hold?" by Henry J. Aaron on "The Huffington Post," April 18, 2016
- "Think democracy means the people are always right? Wrong." by Julian Baggini in "The Guardian," Oct 5, 2016
- "Lies, fearmongering and fables: that’s our democracy" by George Monbiot in "The Guardian," Oct 4, 2016
- "Why Referendums Aren’t as Democratic as They Seem" by Amanda Taub & Max Fisher in "The New York Times," Oct 4, 2016
- "Why Russia is Discrediting American Democracy" by Paul R. Pillar on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Sept 8, 2016
- "The Case for More Government and Higher Taxes" by Eduardo Porter in "The New York Times, Aug 2, 2016
- "Trump has taught me to fear my fellow Americans" by Richard Cohen in "The Washington Post," May 30, 2016
- "The End of American Iraq: Poor Shiites invade Parliament over corrupt Spoils System" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," May 1, 2016
- "How the Curse of Sykes-Picot Still Haunts the Middle East" by Robin Wright in "The New Yorker," April 30, 2016
- "War out of sight, sacrifice out of mind" by Andrew J. Bacevich in "The Boston Globe," April 24, 2016
- "Inclusive Governing key to preventing 5th Wave of Violent Radicalism" by Carl Bildt on "Informed Comment," April 26, 2016
- "Debunking Republican Health Care Myths" by "The New York Times" Editorial Board, April 19, 2016
- "A New Map for America" by Parag Khanna in "The New York Times," April 15, 2016
- "Erdogan and Merkel's Comic Comeuppance" by Anna Sauerbrey in "The New York Times," April 15, 2016
- "Asia’s Silk Road Revival Shows the Age of the West Is Coming to an End" by Peter Frankopan on "Huffington Post," April 14, 2016
- "Larry Summers Talks Income Inequality at IOP" by Aidan F. Langston in "The Harvard Crimson," Oct 2, 2015
- "A Transformational President?" by Fareed Zakaria on "fareedzakaria.com," April 7, 2016
- "The Politics of Backlash" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," April 4, 2015
- "The False News from the Sisi State" by Mona Eltahawy in "The New York Times," April 4, 2015
- "The End of the American Empire" by Chas. W. Freeman, Jr. on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," April 4, 2016
- "The Panama Papers and Middle East Leaders’ Secret Bank Accounts" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," April 4, 2016
- "Jobs and Trade on the Campaign Trail" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," April 2, 2016
- "A C.I.A. Grunt's Tale of the Fog of Secret War" by Mark Mazzetti in "The New York Times," April 1, 2016
- "Mr. Erdogan Goes to Washington" by Derek Davison on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," April 1, 2016
- "China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime" by Shai Oster in "Bloomberg BusinessWeek," March 3, 2016
- "A New Deal for Europe" by Thomas Piketty in "The New York Review of Books," February 25, 2016
- "We’re not a poor country, Mr. Trump" by Robert J. Samuelson in "The Washington Post," March 27, 2016
- "Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about 'ineffective' program" by Spencer Ackerman, Dominic Rushe & Julian Borger in "The Guardian," Dec 9, 2014
- "The Death of Our Treaties" by Jessica T. Mathews in "The New York Review of Books," March 24, 2016
- "The End of American Idealism" by Charles M. Blow in "The New York Times," March 7, 2016
- "Can You Keep a Secret?: The former C.I.A. chief Michael Hayden on torture and transparency" by George Packer in "The New Yorker," March 7, 2016
- "Clash of Republican Con Artists" by Paul Krugman in "The New York Times," March 4, 2016
- "Beware: Exploding Politics" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," March 2, 2016
- "The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst" by Alex French in "The New York Times Magazine," March 1, 2016
- "Andrew Bacevich, Donald Trump and the Remaking of America" by Nick Turse on "TomDispatch.com," March 1, 2016 (introduction to "Don’t Cry for Me, America: What Trumpism Means for Democracy" by Andrew J. Bacevich)
- "The Governing Cancer of Our Time" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Feb 26, 2016
- "Andrew Bacevich, How to Avert Real Change in Election 2016" by Tom Engelhardt on "TomDispatch," Jan 26, 2016 (introduction to "Out of Bounds, Off-Limits, or Just Plain Ignored: Out of Bounds, Off-Limits, or Just Plain Ignored: Six National Security Questions Hillary, Donald, Ted, Marco, et al., Don’t Want to Answer and Won’t Even Be Asked" by Andrew J. Bacevich)
- "Hillary Clinton’s Opportunist Solution!" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Oct 9, 2015
- "Get ready: Experts say a government shutdown is likely" by Amber Phillips in "The Washington Post," Sept 9, 2015"
- Hillary, Jeb, Facebook and Disorder" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," May 20, 2015
- "Errors and Lies" by Paul Krugman in "The New York Times," May 18, 2015
- "The New Age of Counterinsurgency Policing" and "The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond" by Michael Gould-Wartofsky on "TomDispatch.com," by May 5, 2015
- "Ex-C.I.A. Official Rebuts Republican Claims on Benghazi Attack in ‘The Great War of Our Time’" by David E. Sanger in "The New York Times, May 3, 2015
- "Income Inequality Is Costing the U.S. on Social Issues" by Eduardo Porter in "The New York Times," April 28, 2015
- "Enjoying the Low Life?" by Nicholas Kristof in "The New York Times," April 9, 2015
- "The CIA Reorganization and the Middle East" by Emile Nakhleh on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," March 13, 2015
- "Republican Idiocy on Iran" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," March 11, 2015
- "Is It Sheldon Adelson’s World?" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," March 11, 2015
- "GOP’s Man of the Moment Promoted by RJC’s Singer and Adelson" by Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," March 10, 2015
- "Minding the Gap," a discussion of the work of Robert D. Putnam in "Harvard Kennedy School Magazine," Winter 2015
- "America dumbs down" by Jonathan Gatehouse on "macleans.ca," May 15, 2014
- "CCTV, China’s Propaganda Tool, Finds Itself at Center of Antigraft Drive" by Edward Wong in "The New York Times," Feb 13, 2015
- "A Russian TV Insider Describes a Modern Propaganda Machine" by Stephen Castle in "The New York Times," Feb 13, 2015
- "Jon Stewart’s America" by Timothy Egan in "The New York Times," Feb 13, 2015
- "A Discredited Vaccine Study’s Continuing Impact on Public Health" by Clyde Haberman in "The New York Times," Feb 1, 2015
- "Reports reveal joint CIA-Mossad operation to kill Hezbollah leader" by "Middle East Eye" staff, Jan 31, 2015
- "C.I.A. Officers Are Cleared in Senate Computer Search" by Mark Mazzetti & Matt Apuzzo in "The New York Times," Jan 14, 2015
- "Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance" by Jennifer Schuessler in "The New York Times," Jan 4, 2015
- "The Gift That Keeps Giving" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Dec 2, 2014
- "When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Part 5" by Nicholas Kristof in "The New York Times," Nov 29, 2014
- "The Meaning of the Ferguson Riots," an editorial in "The New York Times," Nov 25, 2014
- "The Truth About the Wars" by Daniel P. Bolger in "The New York Times," Nov 10, 2014
- "The Legacy of Fear" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Nov 10, 2014
- "Tackling a Drought in Iran" by Chandran Nair in "The New York Times," Nov 9, 2014
- "Dark Money Helped Win the Senate," an editorial in "The New York Times," Nov 8, 2014
- "Uncle Sam’s Making a List, Checking it Twice & You Might be on It" by Hina Shamsi & Matthew Harwood on "Tomdispatch.com" via "Informed Comment," Nov 7, 2014
- "Building Trust in Government by Improving Governance" by Larry Diamond, paper presented at UN conference, June 27, 2007
- "The Perils of Income Inequality" by Geoffry R. Stone on "Huffington Post," Nov 5, 2012
- “The Disgust Election” by Timothy Egan in "The New York Times," Oct 23, 2014
- "Nation’s Confidence Ebbs at a Steady Drip" by Peter Baker in "The New York Times," Oct 21, 2014
- "The Quality of Fear: What the Ebola Crisis Reveals About Culture" by David Brooks in "The New York Times, Oct 20, 201
- "The First Amendment’s Limit: The Supreme Court’s Plaza" by Adam Liptak in "The New York Times," Oct 13, 2014
- "The Terrorists have our Number, and do a Number on Washington" by Tom Engelhardt on Tomdispatch.com via "Informed Comment," Oct 8, 2014
- "Running on Empty: The Secret Service and the Political Class" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Oct 7, 2014
- "ISIS, Boko Haram and Batman" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," by Oct 4, 2014
- "A Perilous Dependence on Contractors" by Ann Hagedorn in "The New York Times," Oct 2, 2014
- "Blacks Citing Flawed Shield for President" by Peter Baker in "The New York Times," Oct 3, 2014
- "Paying Afghanistan’s Bills," an editorial in "The New York Times," Oct 1, 2014
- "Order vs. Disorder, Part 4" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times." Sept 30, 2014
- "There is Much to Fear" by Peter Van Buren on wemeantwell.com, Sept 29, 2014
- "US Air Travel Snarled by One Guy Not a Terrorist" by Peter Van Buren on wemeantwell.com, Sept 29, 2014
- "Satire: ISIS First Sgt: Recruits Ain’t What They Used to Be" by Peter Van Buren on wemeantwell.com, Sept 27, 2014
- "The Ebola Fiasco" by Nicholas Kristof in "The New York Times," Sept 24, 2014
- "Snap Out of It" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Sept 22, 2014
- "Suspicions Run Deep in Iraq That C.I.A. and the Islamic State Are United" by David D. Kirkpatrick in "The New York Times," Sept 20, 2014
- "OD [Organization Development] in global organizations with trust issues worsened by speed of business" by Allon Shevat on GR 2010 Blog-About Global Organization Development, posted May 14, 2004
- "A Failure of Democracy, Not Capitalism" by Benjamin R. Barber in "The New York Times," July 29, 2002
- "Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?" by Lee Fang in "The Nation," Sept 16, 2014 (If the link doesn't work, click here.)
- "Goodbye, Organization Man" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Sept 15, 2014
- "Americans' Trust in Executive, Legislative Branches Down" by Jeffrey M. Jones on GallupPolitics, Sept 15, 2014
- "Lawmaker Assails Foreign Donations to Think Tanks" by Eric Lipton in "The New York Times," Sept 12, 2014
- "Fools at the Fire" by Timothy Egan in "The New York Times," Aug 7, 2014
- "OD [Organization Development] in global organizations with trust issues worsened by speed of business" by Allon Shevat on GR 2010 Blog-About Global Organization Development, posted May 14, 2004
- "A Failure of Democracy, Not Capitalism" by Benjamin R. Barber in "The New York Times," July 29, 2002
- King Corn (2007) - a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation
- "We've Been Before: Jon Meacham on the Literature of Our Discontent" by Jon Meacham in "The New York Times," Jan 17, 2016
- "Eric Fair's 'Consequence,' a Memoir by a Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator" by Michiko Kakutani in "The New York Times," April 4, 2015
- "Chris Hayes on the Twilight of the Elites and the End of Meritocracy" a book review by Julian Brookes in "RollingStone," July 11, 2012
- "Book review: Chris Hayes' 'Twilight of the Elites'" by the editors of "Daily Kos," June 23, 2013
- "Chris Hayes' Twilight of the Elites: A Review" by Alexis Goldstein on "truthout," June 13, 2012
- "The Cult of Smartness: How Meritocracy Is Failing America," a review of Chris Hayes' "Twilight of the Elites" by Conor Friedersdorf in "The Atlantic," June 12, 2012
- Acemoglu, Daron & Robinson, James, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, 2013
- Chayes, Sarah, Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, 2015
- Dangerfield, George, The Strange Death of Liberal England
- Fair, Eric, Consequence: A Memoir (2016)
- Hayes, Chris, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
- Kinzer, Stephen, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
- Langer, Walter C., The Mind of Adolf Hitler, 1972
- Lewis, Michael, The Fifth Risk, 2018
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, 1932 (1960 paperback)
- Preston, Richard, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
- Woodard, Colin, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. New York: Viking Adult, 2011
- "The Rust Belt on Broadway" on "The New Yorker Radio Hour," March 31, 2017 (If "Listen" button doesn't work, click on small circle with 3 dots near it to download the audio file.)
Reviews:
- "‘American Nations’ by Colin Woodard, a study of our ‘rival regional cultures’" by Alec MacGillis in "The Washington Post," Nov 18, 2011
- "Life May Differ In Your Region" by Michael Barone in "The Wall Street Journal," Oct 10, 2011
- "American Nations" by Jennifer Miller in "CS Monitor," Nov, 7, 2011
- "Colin Woodard’s ‘Eleven Nations’ Shows a Less Than United States" by Steve Kettmann on "Daily Beast," Nov 5, 2011 (updated July 1, 2017)
Song:
- "I Can't Keep Quiet" from the Women's March in Washington on Jan 21, 2017 (To learn about the project, click here)
- GerryRIGGED: Turning Democracy On Its Head (2017) - a video by OneVirginia2021
- "How megacities are changing the map of the world," a Ted Talk by Parag Khanna, April 27, 2016
- "Parag Khanna maps the future of countries," a Ted Talk by Parag Khanna, Sept 28, 2009