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  • Resisting the Totalitarian Power of Politicization

    Resisting the Totalitarian Power of Politicization0

    “People who live in the post-totalitarian system,” wrote Vaclav Havel in The Power of the Powerless, “know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible

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  • Why Perfection Continues to Evade Society

    Why Perfection Continues to Evade Society0

    Just a few weeks ago I was surprised to see a headline indicating American confidence had increased over the past few years. The following chart from a January Gallup poll gives a glimpse into that confidence: How quickly things change. As a friend recently told me, when everything looks good and optimism is up, that’s

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  • The Coming Coronavirus Stagflation

    The Coming Coronavirus Stagflation0

    How should you position yourself to prepare for the coming financial upheaval that may result from the coronavirus? The coronavirus already has caused a supply shock that we have yet fully to comprehend. We can’t look into the future but we can look at the past. One possible way the interruption of Chinese manufactured goods

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  • Counterpunchers: People Who Fight Back

    Counterpunchers: People Who Fight Back0

    In my (much) younger days, I did some boxing. Bill Bianco, an Italian-American living in Boonville, North Carolina, who had boxed as a pro for a little while, gave me my first lessons in the art of pugilism when I was in elementary school. Later, for a year – prior to an honorable discharge in

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  • Bloomberg and Sanders Are Both Wrong About Money in Politics

    Bloomberg and Sanders Are Both Wrong About Money in Politics0

    Super Tuesday – the single day in the U.S. presidential primaries with the most delegates at stake – has come and gone, and so have quite a few presidential candidates. Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) both dropped out before Tuesday and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. After lackluster

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  • After Weinstein, the Rules of Intimacy Come Full Circle

    After Weinstein, the Rules of Intimacy Come Full Circle0

    The conviction of Harvey Weinstein at his recent trial on counts of third-degree rape and sexual assault was evidently a shock to him, but it is also very sobering for sexual libertarians in general.  The field of uncommitted sex is now full of risks and safety seems to lie in a new revolution. The rewriting of the

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  • Waiting for a Communist Superman

    Waiting for a Communist Superman0

    In the pursuit of a communist society, many Marxist-Leninist authors have written about the new kind of person who will create this society. This new human being will be a stark contrast to the kind of person that existed in a capitalist system. Once these capitalist chains are removed, mankind will soar to new heights,

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  • This Isn’t Working: How We View Those We Oppose

    This Isn’t Working: How We View Those We Oppose0

    Recently I celebrated my birthday with my son and five of his children. His wife and oldest daughter were visiting relatives, so I pitched in and helped James with the kids. On my birthday we took the kids to a Steak ‘n Shake just north of town. It’s a kid-friendly restaurant and getting grandchildren to

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  • The Rule of Our Sophisticated Suckers

    The Rule of Our Sophisticated Suckers0

    “There’s a sucker born every minute,” said P. T. Barnum, expressing, without intending it, the soul of modernist movements in the arts. Donald Trump recently outraged what has been called, without any sense of irony or hyperbole, “the architectural community,” with a directive preferring the federal style for new public buildings in Washington, D.C. That

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