The avalanche of anonymous and unaccountable campaign cash that is currently marinating our nation’s politics this election cycle can be likened to the tactics of “Sam Bacile,” the pseudonym for the producer of the film “The Innocence of Muslims” that set ablaze parts of the Islamic world. The destruction that “Sam Bacile’s” little Youtube...
In the 1930s, during the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell recorded in his book, Homage to Catalonia, the seemingly endless squabbles between the factions, sects, and tendencies among his comrades in the anti-fascist resistance. The conflicts ranged from the ideologically profound to the parochially mundane: Communists vs. Socialists, Trotskyists vs. Stalinists, Anarchists vs. Communists,...