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LXXXXV. Weaponizing the Word

Systems of belief have been used - and misused - for power and personal gain from the very beginning.

Sep 7, 2025

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12 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXXXIV. The Myth of the DEI Problem

Current rollbacks will make us poorer, unhealthy, less secure, and angrier. That's the real goal.

Aug 31, 2025

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12 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXXXI. Can Americans Be Fooled?

The norms of democracy appear to be under a concerted and purposeful attack

Aug 10, 2025

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10 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXXX. Mamdani the American Candidate

The party and corporate structures don't know what to do with him, and that might be a good thing.

Aug 3, 2025

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14 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXXII. The Tyranny of Distant Decisonmaking

How America’s “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” Mentality Fuels Systemic Failure

Jun 8, 2025

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12 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXXI. Rediscovering the American Spirit

What exactly is it?

Jun 1, 2025

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10 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXVIII. A Duty to Dissent

Truth be told, there's not much required to be a public citizen, both a feature and a weakness.

May 11, 2025

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13 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXVII. Do We Really Need to Be Told?

There's a reason we grow up with both idioms and idiots.

May 4, 2025

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15 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXIV. Voices, Votes, or Violence: The Three Features of Democracy

The First Two Are A Must. The Third Is A Choice

Apr 13, 2025

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14 min read

Personal Leadership

LXXI. Dying to Be Remembered

The Shadow of Mortality Shapes Our Decisions Much More Than We Think

Mar 23, 2025

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15 min read

Personal Leadership

Culture

CLIV. Before the Label Lands

What shortcuts in thinking cost us.

Oct 25, 2026

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7 min read

Culture

CLIII. Symbols for the Small Tired Brain

Why we fly our own colors, and what happens when someone else's flag looks like a threat

Oct 18, 2026

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6 min read

Culture

CLII. Archie Bunker and The Wrong Enemy

American Anger and Who Really Benefits

Oct 11, 2026

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6 min read

Culture

CLI. The Manosphere Men of Clay

It's the Worst Show on Earth

Oct 4, 2026

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8 min read

Culture

CL. No Country for These Men

What the Powerful Owe the Country That Made Them

Sep 27, 2026

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7 min read

CXLVIII. American Plasticity

What we refuse to do now, our grandchildren will have no choice about.

Sep 13, 2026

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7 min read

World

CXLVII. Buyer Beware, America

The widening distance between workers, customers, and the companies above them.

Sep 6, 2026

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8 min read

Culture

CXLVI. There's Not Much That AI Won't Touch

I watched the desktop computer arrive. This has the same feel, and nobody is minding the store.

Aug 30, 2026

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8 min read

Culture

CXLV. The High Cost of Looking Away

The current leadership teaches us that empathy is inefficient. The result is the first trillionaire and a divided nation.

Aug 23, 2026

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5 min read

CXLIV. The Legal Bar Is Getting Close to the Floor

Young lawyers and the rest of America ought to be watching.

Aug 16, 2026

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7 min read

Politics

CXLIII. A Country That Holds Up Its End

Learning from Japan, Ohio workers, and the fading promise of shared prosperity

Aug 9, 2026

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10 min read

Culture

CXLII. Creating the Alternative Reality

Facts hardly stand a chance when governing is whatever he says.

Aug 2, 2026

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6 min read

Culture

CXLI. Can We Do Something Here First?

Before we go hunting for a second planet, we might try acting like we understand the first one.

Jul 26, 2026

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7 min read

Culture

CXL. The Cancer in the American Soul

A regime can corrupt a country. The country has to refuse to be corrupted back.

Jul 19, 2026

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5 min read

Culture

CXXXIX. The Gun Saturation Loop

When everyone arms up, nobody is safe. That's not a paradox. It's purposeful policy.

Jul 12, 2026

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5 min read

Culture

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