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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.
An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.
For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.
Ruminations and provocations.
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Why should we define our place relative to the Trump approval-disapproval line based on immutable factors such as race, age, or gender? Why not plot it on an axis that contrasts independent thought with dogmatism? If you do, a clear picture emerges: Dogmatists are more likely to support Trump, and independent thinkers are more likely to oppose him.
Read MoreI’m a political independent. But I don’t want to lose my health care. I don’t want the planet to suffer more than it already has because of global warming. I don’t want to see more victims of police brutality, because I can put myself in the shoes of those whose lives are put at risk. And I don’t want armed militias roaming the streets when I go out for dinner and a movie.
Read MoreIn three short months, some white Americans have grown so impatient to “get back to their normal lives” that they’re willing to sweep the image of a man being brutally suffocated under the rug. How long, it must be asked, have Black Americans been waiting to get back to a normal life?
Read MoreIt’s the height of irony that Donald Trump, who has railed against the evils of “identity politics,” has mastered it so completely. He’s tapped into fear among certain segments of the population that they’re losing their identity as the dominant force in these United States.
Read MoreComparisons of Republicans to Nazis have been popular in some quarters, and I’m going to make one here. But it’s not a moral comparison, it’s a tactical one. Republicans are doing the same thing Hitler did when he took over one European state after another — after pledging not to — and British leader Neville Chamberlain let him do it. Instead of satisfying him, it made him more aggressive.
Read MoreThe media continue to cover the 2020 election as though it’s typical. Voters continue to assume it is. We continue to blithely believe that “the system will work” the way it always has. This is more than just naïve. It’s an exercise wishful thinking that crosses the line into denial. These five factors virtually guarantee a constitutional crisis.
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