Showing posts with label American political tradition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American political tradition. Show all posts
Saturday, June 28, 2025

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY

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In my early teens, growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, I was a regular reader of Fletcher Knebel’s political humor column, Potomac Fever, which ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Where are the Augurs?

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Originally, the Romans were seven hilltop villages under Etruscan domination. The nominally Roman deities Minerva, Mercury, and Vulcan were ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Lack of Religion is not the Presence of Science

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Recent polls from the Pew Trust and Gallup assert that 30% of Americans self-identify as Not Religious along the spectrum from Atheist to Do...
Monday, July 4, 2022

You Have No Right ...

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Following the logic of the U.S. Supreme Court in its recent “abortion” decision ( Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ), although y...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Austin’s Homeless: Laissez Faire in a Mixed Economy

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Here in Austin, Texas, the  reductio ad absurdum  of the city government’s policies toward the homeless is that you (and all your friends) c...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

In Support of Paid Political Advertising

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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey suffers from an anti-capitalist mentality. I know that sounds odd, considering, but smart as he is, he evidently lack...
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Monday, January 28, 2019

The Wise Men

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Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, and George Kennan were names that I grew up with, reading daily newspapers and weekly news magazines from t...