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Trump as Mun?

We need new indices. We need new phrases. We need new frameworks. We need new, well, everything. If there’s one thing we have learned in that past week it is that the current American administration is overseen by a egomaniacal fool.  A dullard who basks in the glow of constant hyperbolic praise flowing from the […]

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Democracy?

How can we save or restore democracy if we are  unclear what it is? So: what is democracy for? People have been opining about democracy for ages.  Definitions have been getting ever more refined and cultured.  Sometimes they can seem pretty vague and lost in an abundance of cleverness.  Many of them center on intellectual […]

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American Monarchy

Let’s get to the heart of the situation: the American government is not functioning as a liberal democracy. That much is clear. There is no oversight, no communication, and no process. It is all diktat and tyranny. It is neither liberal in that it now supports tyrants around the world.  Nor democratic in that its […]

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