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    Epstein as a moment for Democracy?

    March 4, 2026

    I have been busy, so I have not been here lately … But: I have nothing to say about the Epstein files.   Except: that the Epstein files have a lot to say about America [and the western world generally] Those files are a testimony to the enormous corruption of our elite.  It has capitulated […]

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    Are We There Yet?

    January 20, 2026

    A quick note on a chaotic Tuesday.  American “values” are no longer American values? I have been re-reading the Levitsky and Ziblatt book “Tyranny of the Minority”, which was published in 2023.  It reads as if it is both a requiem and a warning.  It is a lamentation of the loss of American democracy, or […]

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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.  […]

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