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    Give me Liberty. Or: Give me … umm … Democracy?

    January 6, 2026

    Hat tip to Cyril Hédoin.  I will explain later … “… much laughter at the defects of others, is a sign of pusillanimity.  For of great minds, one of the proper works, is to help and free others from scorn; and compare themselves only with the most able.” Thus said Thomas Hobbes in his Leviathan.  […]

    Economics, Politics / capitalism, democracy, Ganesh, Liberalism, oligarchs, plutocracy /

    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.  […]

    Politics / affordability, capitalism, democracy, inequality, oligopoly, plutocracy /

    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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