Those of you who read my two recent blogs on psychology remember that I suggested that each of us works hard to create a personal universe whose function is to keep internal conflict (experienced as anxiety) at a comfortable level. …

The last two articles in this series were an attempt to convince readers that the voters really are rational. …

In Part I of this discussion we suggested that each of us, in order to keep down internal conflict, creates a personal universe. And that we use everything in that smaller world to keep internal conflict as low as possible. …

A large number of people chose to read my August 13 article Republicans Are Dying and a number of you took the time to comment. I appreciate your doing that. Several of those who commented were exercised by my suggestion that people are always rational. …

When my brother and I were young our very religious mother saw to it that we attended the small local Church of the Nazarene. The congregation was small and for a considerable time they met in a local one room school. …

Turn your mind to sunny California, home of beaches, films, and forest fires. Think of California with forty million people, most of them Democrats (California’s population is larger than all of Canada’s). Their Democratic governor is tall, handsome Gavin Newsom, a commanding presence right out of central casting. Despite his…

Last Sunday in Kabul, Taliban fighters having entered the Afghan capital took over the Presidential Palace. President Ashraf Ghani took off for parts unknown, presumably Tajikistan, which is about as unknown as you can get. The fighters were there because they had been told it was their duty to return…

The national Republican Party is in a peculiar position. Thanks to Donald Trump the party constantly makes the news. Thanks also to Donald Trump, the party has become a hopeless minority. There is no major population group projected to grow that can be identified as Republican.

It is true that…