

Of Tariffs, Trump, and the Terror of "America First"
[This post should begin with the horror's last update, as seen from my perch: noon EDT, the Dow Jones average had freefallen by 1,405...
8 hours ago4 min read
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Democrats' bind, and a way out
"Democrats could make a reasonable argument that 2016 was a fluke. The results of the 2024 election were far more of an existential...
1 day ago5 min read
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We're becoming Hungary, the most corrupt European state
This Atlantic piece by Anne Applebaum is the most cogent look into America's future I've yet read. I wanted to share it, a large portion...
2 days ago5 min read
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Trump makes his third-term shot official
The United States' highest court can distort the 2nd Amendment's stipulation of a "well regulated Militia" and construe the 8th...
3 days ago4 min read
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Smithsonian
I'm terribly late with this Saturday post, although it's never too late to observe Trumpism's rapid transformation of the American...
5 days ago6 min read
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From pettiness to mass malignity
Yesterday a friend sent me a Stephen Rand article titled "America: the empire that texted itself to death." It's a first-rate piece...
7 days ago4 min read
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