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Fearful historians. Combative lawyers. Everybody yelling at Democrats

Yesterday, I watched and listened to Paul Krugman having a penetrating conversation with a military historian, Phillips O’Brien, who teaches at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). They were discussing us, i.e., America in the throes of today. It was … Continue reading

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Movements are afoot

For a while now I’ve been picking up on movements that have advanced from inchoate mutterings to full voice plans and plots. I’m liking this a lot. Aside from the already written vital legislation which got stopped, i.e., postponed, by … Continue reading

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Bernie Sanders, the generation “war” and ideological purity

My brother Ethan has been receiving texts from the Bernie Sanders campaign, inviting him to online meetings or some such (he doesn’t really read them). When he doesn’t respond, he gets follow-up texts asking him “Do you mind telling us … Continue reading

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