by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 21, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics
A friend and I recently had a conversation, wherein he recalled the aftermath of the January 6th Capitol riot and the reaction he witnessed from some political acquaintances. That reaction, encapsulated as “this is on you, Trump voters,” had him pondering...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 20, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
Hollywood is making another attempt at making a film version of the science fiction classic Dune. We already have David Lynch’s 1984 version by David Lynch, which I didn’t care for, and a SyFy channel miniseries from 2000, which I enjoyed rather more. The...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 16, 2021 | Economics, Election, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
There will come a day, though it might not come for a long time, when Trump’s presidency is assessed rationally rather than emotionally. When the tweets and rhetoric have faded to irrelevance and insignificant footnote, and the focus placed on policies and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 13, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
How many articles predicting the ruin that became Afghanistan’s end-game have you read? I recently wrote one, and in all my study for it, I could not find a single source that forecast the speed of the Afghan National Army (ANA) collapse. In the many versions I...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 26, 2021 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Trump held a rally the other day, in which he stood behind a lectern that reads “Save America,” touted his successes. Included among these was the fast-tracking of vaccine development and approval. Then he did something he should have done more forcefully...
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