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Politics Without Politicians
Over the last half-century, it’s become clear that not just the American system, but modern republicanism that spread across the globe from America’s founding is failing. A new book by Helene Landemore, Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule offers incredibly valuable thinking on how we might
Animal Spirits
Sinead had some animal spirits, but it's a term more associated with economics, capitalism to be exact. John Maynard Keynes wrote about animal spirits in his 1936 book, The General Theory of Money, Interest, and Employment. Keynes knew a lot about money, unlike say money innovator Satoshi Nakamoto,
Roots and Machines
Monday night at operations control I sat facing rows of monitor mountains Mind control Life control Operation Mind Control It is no accident American politics and just as clearly global politics offer little insight for our times. Contemporary politics are archaic, maybe at best anachronistic, not of the era. Less
Constitutional Politics: 10th Amendment
SUBSCRIBE ‘Cet esprit de mensonge et d’ erreur—De la chute des rois funeste avantcoureur’ (This spirit of lies and error—a fatal herald of the fall of kings), which Racine spoke about, is today no longer the monopoly of sovereigns. It embraces all classes of the population; it takes