Many of us who support government social programs still feel ambivalent about them — largely because we buy into, or are cowed by, the ideologies of free enterprise and militarism. All the professed concern for our moral peril from "entitlements" such as Social Security and Medicare — they make us soft, dependent, rob us of initiative — may sound strange …
At some point in the next two months, we are going to have to decide whether to absolve the American people if they re-elect Donald Trump. It’s an odd phenomenon that when Arabs are forced to vote for their local tyrant in totally fraudulent elections, we forgive them for their choice on the grounds that the polls are a farce …
