"Nationalize" is usually a term thrown about by crackpots who want to want to kill the free market and place all of something ...

It’s a feature of authoritarian regimes: a patina of reasonableness, swiftly followed by brutal crackdown, R. Bruce Anderson ...

R. Bruce Anderson is the Dr. Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay Jr. Endowed Chair in American History, Government, and Civics and Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Florida Southern ...

I’m possessed a bit by an unfamiliar feeling of disconnectedness. The headlines this week have been permeated by ugliness of one sort of another – a candidate for a high administration post was ...

This past week has been what is becoming “the usual” tiresome, conflictual, at times downright obnoxious and confusing chaos that the Trump folks have brought to the national stage. “Drain the swamp,” ...

When U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican from Florida, offered his bill to create a National Park from the Ocala National Forest and surrounding areas, it seemed off-kilter, somehow. Republicans were ...

There are few more “MAGA” states than our beloved Red Florida, home of the bipartisan grift, supreme leader of the “flexible” building codes and heart of the space program. We’ve elected ...

The interregnum between Christmas and New Year's Day is a weird one in my profession. The expectation is that you’ll finally have some real time off, but it’s actually incredibly short, or seems so, ...

We’re fast hurtling toward the end of the semester here. The exam period starts tomorrow. December commencement is in a week, and winter break is on our doorstep. In the fall, I teach mostly students ...

The fixation of this nation on nationwide events is understandable. We’re caught in the drama of a sitcom/tragedy of national proportions, sometimes international – divided by party, divided by belief ...