by Michelle Sioson | Dec 19, 2025 | Science and Religion
I know a man, a competent and intelligent man, who thinks Trump is a fascist. Let us test this hypothesis against the evidence. First, we must define fascism. Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, military historian, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, defines...
by Michelle Sioson | Dec 16, 2025 | Government, Markets, and You
I know a man, a competent and intelligent man, who thinks Trump is a fascist. Let us test this hypothesis against the evidence. First, we must define fascism. Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, military historian, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, defines...
by Michelle Sioson | Oct 1, 2025 | Climate Change
At his September 24 speech before the UN General Assembly, President Trump called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated” and added that “the carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions.” I agree with him on both counts, but will...
by Michelle Sioson | Jan 2, 2025 | Science and Religion
No book until Jordan Peterson’s We Who Wrestle With God has helped me make sense of the books of the Old Testament to my satisfaction. The God of the Old Testament has always struck me as arbitrary and gratuitously cruel. Thus, I always have been faced with choosing...
by Michelle Sioson | Oct 7, 2024 | Government, Markets, and You
Even the most casual observer of Kamala Harris would be hard pressed to conclude that she is competent, trustworthy, articulate, hard-working, full of well thought through policy proposals, and concerned about the good of the country. Yet the presidential race...