Hendrik Hertzberg Quotes
A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.
Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."
Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.
I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.