False Choices and Real Consequences: A Response to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Abolitionist Rhetoric
By: Richard Graves, MA, Exec. Cert Public Policy "What Chicago needs is not abstract ideological pronouncements but practical, balanced...
Society Failed—And Another Innocent Person Paid the Price
by Richard Graves, Sept 7, 2025 " Empathy Without Accountability Is Deadly" She fled a war only to die on a routine train ride. Iryna...
Harris Lost to the Math: The 2024 Election and the Refusal of the Left to Self-Reflect
By. Richard Graves, MA American History, Exec. Cert. Public Policy "If Democrats want to regain power in 2026 and 2028, they must...
Chicago’s Black Voters and the Politics of Buyer’s Remorse
By Richard Graves, 08/23/2025 “We need that money in my neighborhood, we need it on my block.” — Black Chicago resident at a City...
NPR’s Funding Crisis Wasn’t Just Politics—It Was Self-Inflicted
By Richard Graves, Aug 9, 2025 From Juan Williams to Uri Berliner, the network’s long history of punishing dissent and embracing a narrow...
From Hulk Hogan to Hot Sauce: The Hypocrisy of Speech Policing Without Action
By: Richard Graves, MA American History, 07/25/2025 "We privilege speech policing and symbolic offense—but we let performative actors who...
Hope Reborn: How Superman Might Just Save the DC Universe
By Richard Graves, July 7, 2025 "If James Gunn and company can keep this up, the DC Universe might actually have a shot..." When I first...
“I Love the Poorly Educated”: Intellectual Elitism, Working-Class Resentment, and the Left’s Growing Disconnect
By Richard Graves, MA American History - 9 July 2025 “We won with young, we won with old, we won with highly educated, we won with poorly...
A Nation’s Story Continued: “What to the Descendants of the Slaves is the Fourth of July?”
By Richard Graves, MA American History, 5 July 2025 "Fifteen days after Juneteenth—a day that rightly marks the final emancipation of...
Beyond Tribalism: The Intellectual Dishonesty of Moral Absolutism in American Politics
By Richard Graves, June 29, 2025 One of the more insidious forms of verbal manipulation is the use of logical fallacies—arguments that...
