Chicago Politics in Alive and Well Welcome to the Machine, Chicago Politics is Alive and Well My wife and I used to regularly go to Chicago for long weekends. We loved catching Michael Jordan’s Bulls,…
The Phantom’s Epilogue Editor’s Preface In April 1920, it was reported that a reclusive tenant of Apartment 1203 at the Chatsworth Apartments in Manhattan, New York, had died in his bed. “The Chatsworth,” as it…
Morning seeps through the slit of sky and turns the cell that familiar shade of steel, bunk, tray, toilet that sings when you touch it. I’ve learned the song of this place. Somewhere down the…
My wife and I often record CBS Sunday Morning and watch it in sips all week. A recent segment featured an “artist” now on display at the Guggenheim. Curious, I looked him up. For five…
It has become increasingly clear that many in the political and media establishment oppose Donald Trump simply because he is Donald Trump. His critics seem determined to stand against him regardless of the policy, even…
Tulsi Gabbard just confirmed what many of us have long suspected: Operation Mockingbird is still alive. And it’s not just a relic of Cold War intelligence operations—it’s a living, breathing tool of narrative control that…
Readers of my commentaries may wonder why, barely two weeks after my last piece on Russia-gate, I’m back at it again. The answer is simple: I’ve believed from the very beginning that Russia-gate was a…
It’s a rainy Monday morning, and I’ve got my personal collection of Pink Floyd queued up on Spotify. The weather is the perfect backdrop for their music—moody, layered, a little otherworldly. Today, inspired by those…