When a burglar walks through a neighborhood, and tries doorknob after doorknob to see which one might be unlocked, no reasonable person would say that his attempts to enter are innocent acts. On the contrary, he’d rightly been seen as dangerous. In the same way, when Trump challenges election results through lies, his attempts to…
America
America, Elections, History, Law, Presidential race 2020, Voting Rights
Voting by Mail
by JOHN ADAMS •
America, Military, Trump
American Family
by JOHN ADAMS •
America, Coronavirus, Public Health
How America Bungled the Plague
by JOHN ADAMS •
A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent nearly two decades strategizing for a doomsday scenario. So what went wrong? How is it that America, which wrote the global playbook for pandemic response, accounts for just 4 percent of the world’s population yet…
America, Liberty, Never Trump
Our Fight
by JOHN ADAMS •
America, History, Military, Trump, Unfit, Veterans
VoteVets.org: Pvt. Dan Crowley, Aged 98
by JOHN ADAMS •
America, Authoritarianism, Books, City, Liberty, Trump, Trumpism, Tyranny
Snyder’s On Tyranny
by JOHN ADAMS •
Prof. Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: ‘Lesssons from the Twentieth Century’ (2017) recently came my way. By design, it’s a brief presentation of twenty lessons that Snyder has discerned after a long career as a historian, with significant study and research on twentieth-century European history. It’s a small, inviting pamphlet addressing a big, unwelcome subject. We’ve…
America, Democrats, Never Trump, Trump
The Democratic National Convention 2020, Fourth Night: Biden
by JOHN ADAMS •
Every party needs a nominee, and to advance their views, and oppose the views of Trumpism’s nativist horde, these Democrats have chosen Biden. A year ago, Trump’s pressure campaign against Ukraine made clear how much Trump worried over Biden’s possible nomination. In Biden’s acceptance speech last night, one can see why Trump selfishly worried about Biden, but…
America, Democrats, Never Trump, Trump
The Democratic National Convention 2020, Third Night: The Case Against Trump and for a Better America
by JOHN ADAMS •
In one night, through two speakers, the Democrats succinctly made their case against Donald Trump (through Barack Obama) and for an alternative (through Kamala Harris). There have been, we may be grateful, few times that America has faced so existential a threat as Trumpism. No one would envy us these times; no caring person would…
America, Democrats, Liberty, Never Trump, Trump
The Democratic National Convention 2020, Second Night: The Roll Call Vote That Looks Like America
by JOHN ADAMS •
Under the threat from Trumpism, the Democrats of this convention have built a coalition, of themselves supportive independents, that looks like America. In their roll call vote last night, one saw the success of their efforts. Those opposed to Trump might have wilted under pressure from the power of the federal executive branch, but they…
America, Coronavirus, Democrats, Libertarians, Liberty, Never Trump, Trump
The Democratic National Convention 2020, First Night: Kristin Urquiza Remembers Her Father
by JOHN ADAMS •
So, the Democrats held the first night of their audiovisual convention Monday night. There were, watching, millions of us who are not Democrats, but are yet resolved and confirmed against Trump his autocratic nativism. Although some like us have melted away, for the remnant of which we are a part Never Trump means never Trump. We…
America, Culture, Documentary, Film, History, Race
A Black Cowboy’s Story
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cowboys are among the most iconic figures of the American West. They’re mythologized as strong, independent people who live and die by their own terms on the frontier. And in movies, the people who play them are mostly white. But as with many elements of Americana, the idea of who cowboys are is actually whitewashed…