In My Humble Opinion

This is a series of opinion pieces on various topics. By and large, they tend to be longer than blog entries, and try to address deeper phenomena behind the day-to-day blog topics we see on the web.

• Iran, A Bit of History
• Making Federal Elections Truly Democratic
• Why the Fading Occupy Movement Has Failed To Appeal the Working Peoples’ Anger (unlike the Tea Party). What can and should we be doing differently?
• Our Electoral System is Dysfunctional From Top To Bottom.  Some suggestions on reform and replacement of broken elements.
• The Psychopathic Style in America. My own update on Richard Hofstadter’s classic 1964 essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.”