Just another American story
President John Adams felt bitter about the election of 1800.At 4 a.m. on the day his successor as president and one-time good friend Thomas...
Michael Hicks: Some places of economic compromise
The quasi-end of the election has most of us thinking about what the results mean for the economy. Other than forecasting a recession among...
Biden has his ‘mandate,’ we have ours
To be clear from the start, my concern here is with my Republican representation, and the most conservative of it at that.Modern Democrats can...
Hope remains elusive in troubled Middle East
Where is the hope for the Middle East? No matter how hard we try, it is hard to find grounds for optimism about the...
Oh my, I have a flat tire!
Oh my, I have a flat tire!Have you ever had a flat tire? I don’t remember ever having one until just the other day....
Yes, there is a study of cascading stupidity
AS I SIT PARALYZED with fear over a national election of Armageddon proportion, it is no comfort to realize that even my vote for...
I know people in high places
I doubt if you told the policeman who stops you for speeding that you know people in “High Places” would help you much. You...
Reverse civic engineering
"Don't just do something, stand there." — the White Rabbit in Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonderland"Public policy got a lot simpler this last year...
Passionate politics nothing new
The two aged books sit on my shelf, reminders of tumults that long ago faded into quiet.They are campaign biographies of Democrat Grover Cleveland...
Michael Hicks: Some thoughts on the rural-urban divide
A background to the coming election will be the growing rural-urban divide in America, and how it affects political prospects on the coming decades.Some...