On December 7, 2015, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that as president, he would temporarily stop Muslim immigration to the US “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” Predictably, all hell broke loose as demagogues accused Trump of demagoguery. Nobody spoke about this. My view is that what’s good for…
The self-slaughter of tribalism
July 15, 2014
Every day I read comments by atheists or “secular humanists” ridiculing the religious. And yet those who belittle the notion of “an invisible, bearded old man in the sky” tend to have a fanatically religious reverence for government. Yes, people come to my door trying to convert me to their religion. But at least they…