Joseph Cannon Murtagh is a contributing writer for the Muckraker Report.  He lives in Ithaca, NY. His intellectual heroes include George Orwell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and Hannah Arendt.  Politically, he wonders whatever happened to Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party because he'd love to join.  He's also a big fan of Tolstoy, the poetry of Walt Whitman, and the essays of David Foster Wallace.