Greg Guma, Author at Toward Freedom

What’s So Bad about Gerrymandering (and What the Heck Is It)?

Greg Guma September 8, 2025 Greg Guma

Political maps are “gerrymandered” if they increase one party’s advantage or provide “incumbent protection.” And the boundary lines look strange.

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Most people know that more than 50 Texas Democratic lawmakers recently relocated — some say “fled” — to Illinois to prevent the Texas legislature from achieving quorum and passing laws. It was also hard to avoid hearing about Governor Greg Abbott’s response to that — threats to call “special session after special session after special session” on a redistricting bill. read more

Nukes on the Screen: Seven Decades of Atomic Danger

Greg Guma August 9, 2021 Greg Guma

Numerous films, some of them based on novels, feature nuclear war, its potential impacts and the extreme threat these weapons pose.

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Destabilizing Haiti: Why It Keeps Happening

Greg Guma July 14, 2021 Greg Guma

Having a military presence on the island, or at least leverage with whatever regime emerges, can help to sustain political pressure on other countries nearby, while providing a base to step in as part of any regional military operation deemed necessary in the future.

Winter Reading: Power, Magic and History in Dark Times

Greg Guma December 20, 2018 Greg Guma

How exactly did the Trumps, the Russians and their international co-conspirators mess with American minds to seize power? In several recent books, deeper answers gradually emerge. But some of the revelations are so unsettling it helps at times to escape into fiction. Here are some recommended readings to help cut through the fog of info-war.

Dawn of the Decadent: Christopher Lasch and the Narcissist Road to Power

Greg Guma October 3, 2018 Greg Guma

Long before Donald Trump’s malignant narcissism plunged the United States and the world into a hall of mirrors, thought leaders like Christopher Lasch warned about an emerging psychic assault on humanity and a breakdown of culture.

Deadly Facts: How So-Called Objectivity Created a Culture of Conformity

Greg Guma March 10, 2017 Greg Guma

About a century ago the Western world entered an age of artificial substitutes, technical ingenuity, mechanical products, technological values, and accelerating motion. The watchword of that age was objectivity – a highly illusive standard for both leaders and the led. In particular, the notion of objectivity deeply affected the emerging mass communications industry, which before long was serving as one of the most powerful tools of global social management.