Why Washington D.C. Compulsively Lies About Donald Trump
Beltway types still haven’t grasped that voters decided long before Trump arrived on the political scene that most of what passes for standard operating procedure in D.C. is just as farcical.
Original Storytelling Is Losing Its Cultural Power, And That’s Bad For America
On the big and small screens, new storytelling is losing its ability to saturate our culture and promote shared values.
Online Mobs Drive Ornithologist Into Research Secrecy After Learning He Killed A Bird
Something must have gone wrong with the culture’s conspicuous love of science, because it is manifesting itself in odd spasms of hostility to science.
The ‘March For Science’ Shows How Carl Sagan Ruined Science
The organizers of the ‘March for Science’ follow the legacy of substituting a political narrative for the distinctive language and methods of science.
‘Westworld’ Is Actually A Thoughtful Meditation On Suffering And Consciousness
Critics of HBO’s ‘Westworld’ say all the plot twists hide shoddy storytelling. But the show is telling a profound story about suffering and consciousness.
How Black Lives Matter-Style Activism Is Ruining America
High-minded but ineffective solutions can often be worse than useless insofar as they deter people from focusing on what really needs to be done.
Question The Stories You Tell Yourself About Terror Attacks And Police Shootings
If you’re scared an Arab is going to kill you, you need to question your narrative. You need to do the same if you’re walking down the street fearing the cops are going to shoot you.
Contradictory Attacks On Trump Expose The Media’s Hollow Echo Chamber
Prime society to believe patriotic citizens are repugnant at best and evil at worst, and you have an all-too-willing host for parasitic false narratives the media and others mercilessly repeat.
Don’t Make Snap Judgments About Shootings Based On Viral Videos
Eyewitnesses are unreliable and biased. Videos don’t tell the whole story. A rush to judgment based on incendiary video snippets hurts our country.
‘The Martian’ and the Varieties of Scientific Experience
“The Martian” calls on us to see how science can be a spiritual experience with meaning and value on its own terms.
Jenner and Dolezal: Living La Vita Trovato
With Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal, we have slipped the surly bonds of reality and entered brave new world of self-identity.
Facts Are Dead; Long Live Insanity
Facts get in the way of progress. Fiction, or what is more fashionably called ‘the narrative,’ is the foundation for our great society.
The DOJ’s ‘Trovato Report’ on Ferguson
The DOJ’s report on the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson preserved the left’s narrative, at the cost of destroying the peace.
My 2014 Person Of The Year: Ben Trovato
Any time there was a cause in search of a narrative, Ben Trovato was there.
Understanding The Battle Over The American Narrative
We find ourselves saddled with accounts of our nation’s past that are demonstrably suspect, and disabling in their effects.
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