Crossing the Rubicon

Essays on fascism, the war on terror, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, the Iraq War, the Bush-Gore and Trump elections, and many other subjects from one of America's foremost political thinkers. These provocative pieces have been gathered from the early 2000s to the present and chronicle America's slide away from democracy to a new era of barbarism.

A lawless president, an unleashed plutocracy, an impotent Congress, and a blatantly partisan Supreme Court;