InILLUMINATIONbyPeter LingTax Cuts: And Who They Wound.Both US Republicans and UK Conservatives have branded themselves as tax-cutters and their opponents as tax and spenders. Why?Aug 4, 2022Aug 4, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyPeter LingDonald Trump: For the RecordThe FBI has raided Mar-a-Largo and Trump bellows that this is weaponizing the Justice Department. The raid was to recover records illegally…Aug 10, 2022Aug 10, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyPeter LingTrump and Johnson: Judging Them by the Way They LeftMost UK residents probably saw the Trump/Johnson equation as overdrawn. After all, Boris had written several books, while Trump seemed to…Aug 26, 2022Aug 26, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyPeter LingBerserk Charisma: Understanding the BaseTrump supporters can be a mystery to outsiders. But just maybe sociologist Max Weber can help.Oct 11, 20222Oct 11, 20222
Peter LingThe Wind Has ChangedJoe Biden’s first 100 Days have sped by and even on the other side of the Atlantic and with a global pandemic raging, one can hear the…May 5, 2021May 5, 2021
Peter LingScandals: What Does It Take?Donald Trump has wrapped himself in scandal with the same grace and enthusiasm that he once showed when embracing the American flag. I am…Apr 19, 2021Apr 19, 2021
Peter LingComparing Insurrectionists: Trump and Jefferson DavisPredictably as a Republican, Donald Trump compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of Republican presidents; usually in the…Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021
Peter LingThe Threat of Trump’s Real Men RemainsSometimes a conceptual framework developed for one subject sheds light on another. While co-editing the volume Gender in the Civil Rights…Jan 27, 20211Jan 27, 20211