Published

9 months ago

October 27, 2025

Alice Rush

I’ve always admired this quote from one of history’s greatest economists.

At this point, however, I think the “modern conservative” has no interest in “moral philosophy” or “justification” whatsoever. The rich and power, at least in the United States, have only one interest: becoming richer and more powerful.

Makin matters worse: over the years, this has become progressively easier. In 2010, for example, with the Citizens United decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, corporations were granted the same protections that people enjoy under the First Amendment and became legally able to donate as much as they wanted to political candidates.

Yet today, Citizens United is a “baby step” compared to what’s happened under the Trump administration, which could be summarized as: You pay me huge sums to meet with you and tell me what you want, and I make it happen for you.

Here’s an example documented in the New York Times:

President Donald Trump last night hosted a gathering with the highest-paying customers of his personal cryptocurrency business, sparking bipartisan concerns that he’s selling access to the presidency for personal profit.

Full transcript here.

Do Rich People Seek Justification?

Renewable Energy

Wrong State

Published

7 hours ago

July 15, 2026

Alice Rush

Minnesota is home to intelligent, well-educated people whose approval of Trump is lower than that of toenail fungus.

If Lindell wants to lead a state, he needs to choose one at least 800 miles away. Oklahoma?

He may also want to consider that Trump is easily the most detested person in this nation.

Wrong State

Renewable Energy

The Existence of God

Published

8 hours ago

July 15, 2026

Alice Rush

I wouldn’t say that the burden of proof lies on religion. No one knows how the universe got here.

The Big Bang was an event in which there was no chaos, no “entropy,” as we say in thermodynamics. How did all this orderliness get there 13.87 billion years ago? No one knows. This is an issue in cosmology which is quite likely to outlast human civilization on this planet.

I’m an atheist for a few reasons, one of which is that saying that God created the universe doesn’t get us any closer to an understanding of the cosmos, if only because it raises the question: Who made God?

More to the point, there are hundreds of moral reasons to disbelieve in God. Each year, 9 million children will die unbaptized on this planet before their fifth birthdays. In the bible, we learn that God punishes them all with an eternity of torture in hell. To what sort of weirdo does this make sense?