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Solve The Right Problems

The naive theory of information: Most information is not truth, it is fictions and fantasies and delusions and errors and lies. Truth is a very rare and costly kind of information…a small subset. Flood the Earth with information and the truth sinks to the bottom. Fiction is very cheap, no research, fact-checking. Truth is complicatedContinue reading “Solve The Right Problems”

A Limitarian Political Party

The only question in a democracy is how much a person gets to keep, which depends on how much the rest of us are empowered to keep other people from keeping everything. Wealth concentrates upward slowly but surely and eventually a small group of people own everything and everyone. This has been going on forContinue reading “A Limitarian Political Party”

Do You Believe?

The Kamala Harris speech was rousing…and took me back to a significant event in my life some years ago. She concluded with, “Do we believe in the promise of America…and are we ready to fight for it? And when we fight, we win! God bless you and God bless the United States of America.” IContinue reading “Do You Believe?”

I Think Trump Will Win

11:58 “The whole reason we have freedom of speech is to protect us, protect normal people, who have their own truths to tell, in a world where there are too many Trumps and too many Musks. That’s what it’s for. If it gets flipped around to be a weapon of the Trumps and the Musks,Continue reading “I Think Trump Will Win”

Thanks VOX, Zack, and Tim

The Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts The Trump years revealed a dark truth: The Republican Party is no longer committed to democracy. These charts tell the story. by Zack Beauchamp Graphics by Tim Williams Mar 1, 2021, 6:30 AM CST A visitor wears a face mask with a picture of former President DonaldContinue reading “Thanks VOX, Zack, and Tim”

Trumpist Social Darwinism

By Jonathan Chait Last week, Donald Trump appeared before a rally in Iowa, where he regaled a crowd of supporters with stories of the great wealth of his inner circle of advisers. “When you get the president — this is the president of Goldman Sachs — smart! — having him represent us, he went fromContinue reading “Trumpist Social Darwinism”

Divided and Conquered

Opinion by Arash Azizi Ask most Americans what DSA stands for and they are unlikely to know the Democratic Socialists of America, the country’s largest leftist organization, with about 92,000 members. But ask about AOC and they are likely to be familiar with DSA’s most famous member: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Bronx-born socialist firebrand knownContinue reading “Divided and Conquered”

God Made Donald

Thanks to Chauncey DeVega In this age of intense political and religious division, many Christian nationalists have convinced themselves that they have a special claim on America. That simply is not true. The United States was not founded as a “Christian nation.” The Constitution enshrines a clear separation of church and state, and no versionContinue reading “God Made Donald”