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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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Tagged Adam Schiff, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, BlueSky, Chris Murphy, Congress, Democratic Party, Elizabeth Warren, executive orders, Florida House District 1, Florida House District 6, Hakeem Jeffries, Jamie Raskin, Jasmine Crockett, Jerry Nadler, Just Security, MAGA, Marc Elias, MSNBC, NY House District 21, Paul Krugman, Phillips O'Brien, Robert Garcia, Ron Wyden, Ryan Goodman, Sheldon Whitehouse, Tim Snyder, Trump
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Contemplating Freud’s holy trinity
Elon Musk’s apparent amorality got me thinking, not for the first time, about morality. A convenient way of looking at morality is through Freud’s conceptual triad of id, ego and superego. So I pulled out both my Latin-English dictionary and … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Politics, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich
Tagged "libertarians, Adam Wyden, conscience, ego, Elon Musk, id, Nancy Bass Wyden, Ron Wyden, Sigmund Freud, superego, The Strand, transactional analysis
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