Saturday, August 16, 2025

"Hey, if I found out somebody had been sneaking into my fitness club for years without paying, I'd want him arrested!"

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  The complaint encapsulated by the above title corresponds to the Republican Party's attitude toward "illegals" at present, a...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Arendt's Strange Take on Truths, Opinions and Facts

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  Hannah Arendt has certainly been having her day. That she led a fascinating--even romantic-- life, is clear from several recent movies and...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Even the Best Works are Sometimes Followed by Mediocre Sequels

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Back in 2014, Maria Paula Saffon and Nadia Urbinati published a paper in the journal Political Theory entitled "Procedural Democracy, ...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Yet Another Conception of "Wasted Vote"

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  Back in March of 2024, I wrote a piece about the ambiguity of the term "wasted votes." In it I reproduced three or four inconsi...
Friday, July 18, 2025

A Drop of Good News Falls From the Pervasive Dark Clouds of Doom!

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  Something good has actually happened for the future of democracy someplace! Not in the U.S., natch, but in the land of Viginia Woolf and T...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Democracy Criteria From the Woodstock Days

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  Back in 1968, Professor David Braybrooke published his book Three Tests for Democracy. Much of that work focuses on rights and welfare, bu...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

A Few Key Quotes From Robert Jones's Book on White Supremacy

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In his excellent book on the history of American racial domination and genocide, Robert Jones focuses on "The Doctrine of Discovery,...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Jane Austen on the Difference Between Moral and Prudential Values

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For at least a decade, I have been trying to get more respect for prudential values (that which is good for individuals and groups), based o...