Monika Bauerlein, CEO of Mother Jones, thinks President Donald Trump’s apparent madness has method in it.  (Why Does the Press Keep Helping Trump?” by Monika Bauerlein, Mother Jones, Jan/Feb 2018 pg. 5.)  She accuses him of spinning the truth each day, not to influence, but to c

Ralph Nader writes about erosions in tort law which limit the ability of a citizen to be heard in court.  (“Suing for Justice,” by Ralph Nader, Harper’s, April 2016, accepts 57-62.)  A tort, which goes back to Roman times, is the due process an individual can exercise to redr

Normally, this blog is dedicated to ideas that spring from writers whether they be authors, essayist, poets or columnists. Today, I digress to the spoken word instead. This is the political season, after all, where rhetoric takes center stage. In the race for president, much of the de