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    Ganesh Wakes Up? — Sort of

    December 18, 2025

    Better late than never. Isn’t that what we say? Alternatively: it’s about time! However we enter the discussion, whether we welcome latecomers, or we pour scorn on the naive, any addition to the ranks of the clear-eyed must be what we might call “a good thing”. Today’s recruit is Janan Ganesh of the Financial Times.  […]

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    The Crowd and Affordability

    November 17, 2025

    Demos Kratia #12 Taking my own advice: I am re-reading Rudé.  How relevant he seems to what we are living through. I once wrote the phrase “words unsullied by thought” in the draft of a play about Antonin Artaud the French surrealist.  Actually, he was too surreal even for the surrealists.  His madness was that […]

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    Affordability in a Fading Gilded Age?

    November 12, 2025

    Demos Kratia 13: All of a sudden affordability is on every politician’s lips.  Somewhat regretfully in many cases.  Yet it is not a new issue — it has been brewing for ages.  Now it has burst on the scene, and only people branded as “extreme” seem willing to engage with it.   That’s one narrative […]

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