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  • Overcoming Duopoly

    We need communities of solidarity to elect leaders at all levels that can work toward a constitutional amendment to change how elections are run and districts are drawn. This will create the conditions for debilitating winner-take-all and for demonstrating the… Continue reading

  • Learning the Difference between Neo-Liberalism and Progressivism in the Poverty Nation

    There is a big difference to be made between the progressivism that once was the hall-mark of left-wing politics and the left-leaning wing of neo-liberalism. This article, focusing on how corporations–and I would add many colleges & universities–make use of… Continue reading

    Learning the Difference between Neo-Liberalism and Progressivism in the Poverty Nation

  • Daodejing 41

    #41* The person having most excellence who hears DAO practices assiduously. The person having average excellence who hears DAO only practices on occasion. The person having least excellence who hears DAO laughs at it. Yet, if DAO were not laughable,… Continue reading

    Daodejing 41

  • Killing the Liberal Arts… A Non-Conservation

    The importance of the humanities in educating citizens is why we have undoubtedly seen the consequences of the decline in of the liberal arts nowhere more than in the quality of the public debate. The disappearance of the liberal arts… Continue reading

  • An Empty Chair, Dirty Harry, and Moses

    I watched what little bit of Clint Eastwood’s RNC improv that I could. I was incredibly embarrassed for the man. As Obama says, a good actor & a great director. But also kind of a weird choice to be introducing Mitt… Continue reading