The editorial board at the Wall Street Journal had an extraordinary insight. Flawed, but shocking nonetheless. To understand the dynamics…
Tag: Donald Trump
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Looking for Empires in all the Wrong Places, Part Two
Peasants make for lousy emperors. When you have to guess what power means, you often observe other people in charge,…
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Looking for Empires in all the Wrong Places, Part One
The problem with empire-building is that it comes down to parasites looking for established entities to subjugate. Everything is both…
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The Memes Will Continue: When Power Cosplays as the Powerless
The White House did not quietly share a misleading photograph; it publicly posted a taunt. A civil rights attorney is shown…
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Missing the big picture of Mark Carney’s Davos Speech
I am not much into political theatre. Speeches, like press conferences, are canned events with little to no news value.…