Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

Links and Comments: Tribalism, Zero-Sum Politics, Trump, Gut Reactions, Weather Forecasting

Posted on 22 September 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

First, Andrew Sullivan has an essay in New York magazine, America Wasn’t Built for Humans, subtitled, “Tribalism was an urge our Founding Fathers assumed we could overcome. And so it has become our greatest vulnerability.” He wonders how American has … Continue reading →

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Link and Comment: Elizabeth Kolbert spells it out

Posted on 11 September 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

The New Yorker, September 11th issue. Elizabeth Kolbert: Hurricane Harvey and the Storms to Come. Subtitle: “In the leadup to the historic flood, Texas Republicans abetted Trump’s climate-change delusions.” Print title: “Coming Storms” Elizabeth Kolbert, author of one of the … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Marcotte on Trump, and Evangelicals

Posted on 11 September 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

It’s becoming more and more clear that Trump has no values, no ideals, no standards. He’s only about making deals, and he’s willing to align himself with anyone to make deals, no matter for what, no matter with whom. Salon, … Continue reading →

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Conservative Story-Telling

Posted on 11 August 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

One of my themes here is about the nature of story-telling, how the human bias to understand things in terms of narrative is more widespread than we recognize, and how that tendency can blind us to an understanding of the … Continue reading →

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Dan Savage on “Sex Dread” Education

Posted on 6 August 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Vox: “Sex dread” education could be on the rise under Trump. Dan Savage is ready to fight it.. Subtitle: Dan Savage on why abstinence-focused education doesn’t work. Of course. Because conservatives just *know* things to be so, despite evidence. Excerpt: … Continue reading →

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Right-wing Fake News

Posted on 6 August 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

From a few days ago… Case study of how right-wind media misrepresent or simply lie about an essay (by Jerry Coyne) on the philosophical implications of euthanasia… (As always my thought about conservative panic and alarm is that, if they … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Trump’s anti-intellectualism; ‘religious liberty’

Posted on 31 July 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Salon, Conor Lynch: Draining the swamp — of brainpower: Trump’s corrupt administration is fueled by anti-intellectualism. Subtitle: “Trump got elected by attacking ‘elites.’ But he didn’t mean rich people — only those with education and expertise” Well of course. Only in … Continue reading →

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Link and Comment: What a Contemptible Person

Posted on 31 July 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Right Wing Watch: David Barton Blames Gay People For High Health Care Costs “The most expensive health care cost in America right now, by far, individually, is for homosexuals. They cost more in the system than any other, hands down.” … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Conservative Authoritarianism, Mysticism, and Selective History

Posted on 26 July 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Right Wing Watch: Breitbart Editor: The Goal Is The ‘Full Destruction And Elimination Of The Entire Mainstream Media’ That is, an authoritarian, conservative government that determines the truth, and no one else is allowed to say respond or criticize, or … Continue reading →

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More from Cory Doctorow’s Locus Interview

Posted on 17 July 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

While editing the ‘excerpts’ from Cory Doctorow’s long interview in the current issue of Locus Magazine, excerpts that I posted online on Sunday (here), I captured several other passages from that interview that particularly appeal to the themes of this … Continue reading →

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