Published: mic (October 1, 2013)
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Political insight can come from the darndest places.
On this occasion, inspiration struck me in the midst of insomnia-induced light reading. My nocturnal literary companion, Kristin L. Hoganson’s classic historical monograph Fighting for American Manhood, was discussing the various ways in which Victorian ideals on masculinity influenced America’s imperialist ambitions at the turn-of-the-century.
Published: mic (September 11, 2013)
While it’s a tad unorthodox to opean a political op-ed with two historical quotes, this pair strikes me as particularly prescient:
1. “They [the Union of states] will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”... Read Original Article
Published: mic (August 25, 2013)
... Read Original ArticlePublished: mic (August 20, 2013)
As liberals prepare to celebrate President Benjamin Harrison’s birthday today ….
I’m sorry? Most people don’t know that August 20 is Harrison’s birthday, much less care?
Well, that certainly is a pity. After all, if it wasn’t for Harrison, many of the policies liberals consider so important today might have never been enacted.
Published: mic (June 8, 2013)
In light of the recent ricin attacks on Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg, and Mayors Against Illegal Guns, it is time for us to acknowledge an unavoidable reality:
When the slippery slope fallacy is applied to politics, the consequences can be dangerous.
As defined by the Nizkor Project (an organization dedicated to debunking Holocaust denial), a slippery slope argument is “a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question.”