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Commentary, Politics / Bob Gates, capitalism, Cruz, democracy, plutocracy, Reagan, Sanders, Simpson-Bowles, Trump /

The Anti-Gates

December 4, 2015

Bob Gates has made quite a name for himself by being ‘that sensible guy’ — the one who cuts through the rhetoric and tells it the way it is. In this vein he fits alongside other ‘serious people’ such as the infamous Simpson and Bowles who, as you might recall, made a great name for […]

Commentary, Economics / economic theory, Friedman, Gombrowicz, Paul Krugman /

Tower of Babel

November 30, 2015

I have quoted Gombrowicz before, allow me to repeat myself – or, rather him, – once more. Only this time at more length: “I stopped by the cafe where a group of young poets, Concreto-Invencion (or maybe it was the group Madi), gather every week. There were always ten poets yelling at each other in […]

Commentary, Politics / guns, Republicans, terrorism /

Paris and Refugees

November 18, 2015

One more quick word: How wrong is it to reduce or stop entirely our willingness to accommodate refugees fleeing from the middle east? The knee jerk reaction on the right has been to call for a total halt to that willingness. What a horrible and un-American reaction. Since 9/11 America has steadily exhibited a cowardice and […]

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