by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 21, 2021 | Politics |
Fox News has done more damage to America than any institution in my life time. Starting modestly as a purveyor of hard news, the network went hard right during the Bill Clinton impeachment trial and has spent the ensuing quarter century systematically loosening its...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 19, 2021 | Politics
Going back centuries, North Carolina has had a split personality regarding basic democratic principles. One side, embodied most vividly by the secessionists who followed other Southern states out of the union in protest against Abraham Lincoln’s election,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 18, 2021 | Politics |
It is with genuine shame that I observe Madison Cawthorn is the first Millennial to hold high office in North Carolina. In typical underhanded fashion, he markets himself as a member of Generation Z, but having been born in 1995 he represents the tail end of the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 14, 2021 | Politics
In truth, civilizational defeat was intrinsic to the formation of America. Europeans did not “discover” terra incognita when they arrived on the shores of the western hemisphere in the late 15th century. Following first contact, three out of four...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 12, 2021 | Politics |
The North Carolina General Assembly can seem like a stone wall standing in the way of any kind of progress in the state. Remarkably homogeneous and stubborn, the majority Republican caucus of the state legislature will not tolerate improvements in the social-welfare...
