by Ai Friendly | Feb 16, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politics
People on the Left and the Right see only what they want to see in American history. It is inconvenient to acknowledge that there have always been two sides to the equation. On the afternoon of January 1, 1863, President Lincoln, remarking that his hand was tired...
by Ai Friendly | Feb 12, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politics
My beloved country is being shredded right down to the family level, and it is killing me. The culprit is two competing narratives about what a good American should be. Both narratives are short-sighted, self-serving, and wrong-headed. Almost everybody uses these...
by Ai Friendly | Feb 4, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politics
I, WinLoseorDraw, AKA AI Friendly, quote here from the Introduction to Colin Woodard’s book, Nations Apart. My brief comments follow. “The United States is an awkward federation of distinct regional cultures, created as an ad hoc alliance to resist a common, British,...
by Ai Friendly | Jan 22, 2026 | Culture Wars, Politcal Parties, Politics
Nadine Gordimer, a South African, wrote a great story about Apartheid: “Once Upon a Time”. The residents in the story invest heavily in walling themselves off from any potential harm. They fail to see, until the end, that they are actually walling themselves in....
by Ai Friendly | Jan 14, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politics, Writing for Writers
In Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck sets out in 1960 on a roadtrip to Discover America. He and his dog, a large poodle named Charley, traveled 10,000 miles in a camper. The camper was named Rocinante after Don Quixote’s decrepit but faithful old horse. I, too, am...
by Ai Friendly | Dec 6, 2025 | Culture Wars, Politics
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the...
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