If one wants a democracy, then citizens must have a right to petition and attempt to influence the government that is making laws for them. This includes individuals, unions (which also spend hundreds of millions on lobbying), religious groups (ditto), and business corporations. Excluding some individuals or groups of individuals makes them second- or third-class […]
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Tennessee Williams wrote The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The play Streetcar won him a Pulitzer and the movie version, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, won several Oscars. From an article listing 71 things about the playwright Tennessee Williams, in honor of the 71 years of his life. Item
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After decades of Woke Left insistence that pretty much everything is racist, this is irresistible. Democratic Socialists of America membership by race. Let me channel my inner Woke sensibilities … [clears throat] … : THIS IS RACIST!!
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A decade before the formal end of slavery in the entire USA, Frederick Douglass spoke on “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852, to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in New York. “What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not
Action shot from my talk at the Galt’s Gulch event in San Diego: More event coverage here:
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Collected from various online wags: “He got Aristhrottled.” Thief gasps: “I’m dying.” Professor says: “All of us are dying. The question is: Did you ever live?” “If a car thief dies in the woods … “ “I breathe, therefore I am. I can’t breathe, therefore … “
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One side suggests 10%. The other side says 50%. They agree in principle and are merely negotiating degrees of implementation. Related: “Third Way” Politics and Its Fruits, on last generation’s mix of government-business partnerships.
What is the correct amount of US government ownership of the economy? Read More »
I’ll be giving two talks at next week’s Galt’s Gulch conference in (hopefully) sunny San Diego, California. “Primitivism and Polarization—and the Power of Philosophy”: Deeply divided groups seem to dominate public discussion and generate a rhetorical race to the bottom. What is the evidence for increased polarization? What are the competing explanations for it? And
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