American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Eating Lemons

Ever eat a lemon?
Picture a series of lemon-eating, funky-lip faces, a wonderful Andy Warhol montage. I would pay $400 Zlotys to see it at New York’s Whitney Museum. I would pay $280 Zlotys to see it at the San Antonio Museum for the Arts. In Burkina Faso you might have [...]

Help McCain stop White House sponsored torture

Distill America down to one core concept and you are not left with “democracy” or “freedom.” These are derivative concepts that only have meaning in a country and in a world that absolutely protects the individual rights of citizens against the tyranny of government. America was the first to introduce a bill of individual rights [...]

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