John Stoehr

John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. He writes the daily edition. Find him @johnastoehr.

I haven’t asked in a while

February 22, 2022 /

A bit of light today.

Censorship, violence and lies — the ‘Lost Cause 2.0’

February 21, 2022 /

The point is creating conditions for doing horrible things.

‘Against stupidity we are defenseless’

February 18, 2022 /

The “freedom convoy,” anti-vaxxers and why a Lutheran minister murdered by the Nazis thought that evil wasn’t the worst thing.

‘Do we want to live in a world where Putin calls the shots?’

February 16, 2022 /

Patriots say no. Rightwingers say maybe.

The truth won’t speak for itself

February 15, 2022 /

The Democrats can’t trust the press and pundit corps to explain to the American people that democracy as they know it is under assault.

What is ‘the good life’ in the United States and what can we do as a republic to make it real?

February 14, 2022 /

Reviving a “philosophical tendency.”

Gratitude amid grief

February 12, 2022 /

A programming note …

A racist religion is a bad religion

February 8, 2022 /

Treating white evangelical Protestants without kid gloves.

Democracy asks ‘the people’ to think of themselves as ‘a people’

February 7, 2022 /

Americans rarely do, though.

In mourning

February 6, 2022 /

About this week.