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    Hédoin Nails It … But What is It?

    July 23, 2025

    Cyril Hédoin is absolutely correct.  Go read his Substack. His point is simply that liberalism is a vague mess and needs clarification if it is to carry weight in our current conversations. I agree. Which is why I keep asking us all to stop using phrases like “liberal democracy”.  What on earth is that?  What […]

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    The Point of the Pencil

    July 23, 2025

    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 […]

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    We the People? Nah!

    July 17, 2025

    I promise this will be short. As an addendum to everything I have been pondering lately … Don’t you find it odd that every time someone is elected who sits politically a little to the left of what is tolerated by the “sensible” or “centrist” folk the mumblings begin about just how impractical all those […]

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