November 29, 2020 Pearl River I really, really want to like Erica Chenoweth and her work as a researcher and advocate of “strategic nonviolent conflict,” but I keep having trouble getting all the way there. Chenoweth is most popular for her conclusions, with co-authors, that civil-resistance movements are almost two times more successful at creating …
Logrolling
November 28, 2020 New Orleans The term “logrolling” has always fascinated me. It seems so authentically American, speaking of a time when the country was mainly frontier. Logrolling also speaks to the solidarity so appreciated by any of us who have had to move what might be left of a tree by ourselves, running …
Mask Protection
November 27, 2020 Pearl River There’s a huge back and forth among the American masses about mask protection from Covid-19. Support, according to surveys, for mass masking has continued to rise, despite resistance in the White House. We’re certainly going to see something approaching a national mandate or call for mass making with a new …