One Nation
Under One Party
DEMOCRACY was not actually “on the ballot” in 2024. That was just a metaphor by people who write for news anchors and TV panelists. The main media have lunch together … Read More
Category: U.S. Politics
The Best Democracy
(That Money Can Buy)
The current era of liar’s democracy began innocently enough when President Dwight D. Eisenhower engaged Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, a leading Madison Avenue advertising agency, to beef up his … Read More
Not Everything Trump Says Is A Lie
A Philospher Made Some Classical Distinctions
IN PLACE of what print journalists refer to as President Trump’s lies, cable commenters have a less formal term. Trevor Noah of the Comedy Channel and Don Lemon and Chris … Read More
MAY DAY MEDITATION
Keep Yer Distance, Pilgrim
Experiencing extreme social distancing at home on May Day, I was reminded of something I wrote as a journalist that was never published because I could not figure out how … Read More
Politics and Potlatch
The anthropology of gifts: Warrior class of ancient India, First Nation people of British Columbia, Wine Cave dwellers of California
By LARRY JOSEPH CALLOWAY (C) The Wine Cave War that livened up the Democrat presidential debate a week before Christmas 2019 was timely because it was the season of giving, … Read More
The Unheard Hearing
Regarding the separation of church and science
Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist, was a stranger in that strange land, the United States Senate, and so her impromptu response to the two most definitive questions by … Read More
Keeping The Secret Alive
Will the CIA be great again?
By Larry Joseph Calloway © A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick (Scribner, 2017) Laos is a … Read More
Hillbilly Synchronicity
My Fellow Americans. . .
By Larry Joseph Calloway The networks were so unprepared for Donald Trump’s win that my election night switching caught only one panelist who could speak with authority for the key … Read More
What Did You Expect? Privacy?
Mechanic In A Digital Age
Finally, some media attention to the thin legal basis for the NSA surveillance of telephone and e-mail communications. Stories today about the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon … Read More
Hello? Is This Chile?
Forgetting Friedmanism
The mine rescue resulting in national pride and universal acclaim for Chile was indeed “historic,” but not in the cable news context.