The chasm between “red” and “blue” states in the U.S. continues to widen. Contending and mutually incompatible understandings of the American experience vie for political ascendancy. Writing in The American Mind, the pseudonymous “Rebecca” argues that avoiding violent conflict may well depend on Americans considering a radical new political arrangement.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


