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Author: Dave Denison

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Defeating the Voters
May 14, 2019
On the state level, legislative power brokers are often at war against the plainly expressed will of the voters themselves.

Don’t Let People Enjoy Things
May 09, 2019
The simultaneous release of the final season of Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame has wrought upon this earth the swarm of a particular breed of internet person, one who responds to critics of any corporate franchise or brand with this insipid image: Let me be clear: this ...

The “Free Speech” Cheat
May 03, 2019
College Student Senate chambers are not historically hotbeds of nationwide controversy, but Turning Point USA is set to rewrite the rules of campus politics. The ultra-conservative student group, which could easily be labeled “the youth wing” of Trump Republicanism, has ...

Twentieth-Century Man
April 30, 2019
The political commentator William Schneider has often quoted, over the years, a comment he attributes to the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. When an aspirational youth wrote to Disraeli for advice about how to succeed in public life, the Great Man purportedly responded ...

The Abominations of Congress
April 16, 2019
More than twenty years ago Charles Lewis noted in The Buying of the Congress that for most Americans the national legislature is “a distant abomination.” You can put the emphasis on “distant”—fewer than half the citizenry can name their representative and even fewer ...

Home/work
April 11, 2019
One of industrial capitalism’s gravest sins is the separation of work from home. Factories cleaved in two what was once a unified sphere, a place that you both created and inhabited, living relatively un-alienated amongst the fruits of your labor. Not that it was an equal ...