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New Order

David Rothkopf wonders “whether America’s run is up, the American Century is over?” The answer appears to be a definitive yes....

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Reversion To Mean

The fantastic Will Bunch had a great, but depressing, piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer the other day that described the anger...

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It’s Over

The coup that began with the Brooks Brothers riot in 2000, and then just barely failed in 2021, was finally completed...

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Gradually, Then Suddenly

Despite conservatism’s dream of denial, we clearly live in the Buddhist world of impermanence. In addition, Darwinian evolution emphasizes the ability...

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State Of Failure

As the four-year anniversary of the most dangerous attack on our democracy since the South’s secession in 1861 passes and the...

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The Culture Of Lying

The recent story of the Indian tech company YesMadam firing all their workers who reported that they were stressed on the...

Brook No Argument

A friend recently sent me David Brooks’ article in the Atlantic entitled “How The Ivy League Broke America”, in which Brooks...

Ballot Backfire?

I’ll be writing about a few more random thoughts about specific issues in this election in the coming days. My fuller...