The visible hand of ideology or the hidden hand of magic?  The oligarchs are clear which they want you to believe in.  Keep the faith and they keep their power.  That’s the way they prefer things.  But sometimes things get awkward … PART ONE: In the aftermath of the recent New York City mayoral primary […]

This represents my draft summary of where we are.  It picks up on my recent themes. It is based on my simplified notion of democracy as an action and not as a set of ideas, a structure, norms, or any such thing.  Democracy is something that happens.   It is not a form of government.  […]