philosophy

  • The Fantasy of Living Outside Politics

    I hear it a lot these days from friends who are largely checked out. They say they aren’t very politically minded or they they simply favor common sense ideas. To say nothing of the political centrality of common sense envisioned by the likes of Thomas Paine, the whole idea of an apolitical common sense is,

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  • We, Too, Will Think We are Free

    Like Milton Mayer wrote about the Germans under Nazism, we, too, will think we are free. The foundational concept etched into our collective ethos. Never to be the conquered, always to be the liberator. It should be a strength, the pride in our commitment to ideals of freedom. But it will become a prison as

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