Talking Politics
Tuesdays at 4:45 p.m.
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One of my favorite lectures to my students at Columbia College is about the stability and durability of the two-party system in America. I draw a diagram…
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“Little doubt an election held today would be a Biden landslide/GOP wipeout,” an editor for the respected nonpartisan Cook Political Report said on June…
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It is said that the Balkans in southeast Europe “produce more history then they can consume.” I feel that right now the United States is producing more…
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When I was in graduate school at Michigan State I got a job with grounds maintenance because the graduate assistantship wasn’t paying the bills. In the…
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Until I was eight years old I lived on the edge of a small town in eastern Illinois. Every morning I looked out on big sky and corn or corn stubble. I…
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During the Easter egg hunt my two-year-old grandson announced that he had found a rooster egg. This got me thinking: What are some fascinating but…
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I tell my students at Columbia College that when they are finished with this class and they don’t know if I’m a Democrat or a Republican, a conservative…
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I have not read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ novel Love in the Time of Cholera and it appears the plot doesn’t have much to do with disease, but it certainly…
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I’m old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. The received wisdom at the time was: How did this second-rate, washed-up…
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The president, a New Yorker, wins a very close and bitterly contested election and flips the party holding the White House. His first term is…