by Nick Patricca | Jun 3, 2015
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio bills himself as the ‘American Dream’ candidate for president. Playing on the immigrant status of his parents who emigrated to the U.S. from Fulgencio Batista’s Cuba in 1956, Rubio casts himself as the candidate who best...
by Nick Patricca | May 6, 2015
Paul Varnell, a gay writer and activist, was the first libertarian I ever met. He wrote a nationally syndicated column in gay media. Every time he and I bumped into each other on the streets of New Town, he would drill me on the work of Leo Strauss because I received...
by Nick Patricca | Apr 1, 2015
In 1799 the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher published a ground-breaking work, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers. In these speeches, Schleiermacher contested the arrogance of those philosophers of the Enlightenment who dismissed...
by Nick Patricca | Mar 4, 2015
Civil Rights is personal. You either feel the issues in your gut or you don’t. No set amount of rhetoric or logic, no quantifiable amount of insult, can with certainty move you to action. Not even unbearably evil murders, such as, the murders of the four Black...
by Nick Patricca | Feb 4, 2015
I once saw a production of Lysistrata—one of several anti-war plays by the ancient Greek writer Aristophanes—in which the chorus of old men sit on chamber pots complaining about the state of affairs in Athens as they try to move their bowels while suffering...
