Pen RoseAbraham Lincoln’s incomprehensible statement on voting rightsI recently finished reading Lincoln, the biography of Abraham Lincoln by David Herbert Donald. It’s pretty good. I’m not very interested in…4 min read·May 26, 2021----
Pen RoseA quick note on the Alabama special electionIn the 1990 contest for governor of Minnesota, Republican nominee Jon Grunseth was accused of trying to get two young teenage girls to go…1 min read·Nov 27, 2017----
Pen RoseHow Democrats Could Respond to a Indefinitely Lopsided Conservative Supreme CourtEdit: With Justice Kennedy announcing his retirement on June 27, 2018, this piece has switched from thought experiment to very real…5 min read·Apr 10, 2017----
Pen RoseThe United States is a DemocracyLately I have heard the same bit of nonsense repeated a lot in political discussions. When someone is inclined to defend some policy that…5 min read·Dec 30, 2016----