Benjamin Cain

1 week ago | medium.com | Benjamin Cain |Ben Ulansey

A superficial clash between explanations of Trump’s second presidential termHow much of Donald Trump’s second term as president follows from his metastasized personality disorder, and how much can be attributed to the anarcho-capitalists, billionaires, and grifters who mean to exploit Trump as their frontman so they can impose Project 2025 on America? Luckily, there’s no need to choose between those explanations since they fit together like a hand and glove.

1 week ago | medium.com | Benjamin Cain |Ben Ulansey

Empathy as a balm for our common haplessnessI still remember the first time a moral quandary resonated with me. I was in high school and taking a public bus back home at the end of the day’s classes. Normally, I found that these buses would lumber along so slowly that it was hard not to fall asleep while sitting in one. But this time, the driver was either late, in a bad mood, or incompetent, and he drove like he was in a car chase in an action movie.