Showing posts with label state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label state. Show all posts
Sunday, November 12, 2017

What Is A “Failed State?”

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     You’ve heard the term applied to Libya, and perhaps one or two other places. But what does it mean?      Chris Farrell of Judicial Wat...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

The Collapse Of Public Order

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     It’s here. In truth, it’s been here since the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of these United States. Last night’...
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Sunday, July 30, 2017

"Essential Services"

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     The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an en...
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Monday, March 27, 2017

The Problem Of Irrelevant Perspectives

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     Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely – John Edward Emmerich Dalberg, a.k.a. Lord Acton      The cen...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Parallels That Instruct

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     First, some relevant music to set the appropriate atmosphere:      The lyric, one of ELP’s more apocalyptic ones: Just a step cri...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Learning The Limits

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     Despite my own libertarian inclinations, I frequently find myself at odds with persons who regard libertarianism as the be-all and end-...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

“We Can Use This!”

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     Just in case you’ve been living in a tree in the jungles of Malaysia this past decade: Dr. Michael Mann, he of the “hockey stick” appro...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

The Beauty of Excellence and Voluntarism

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Drawing by the author, done in art school from a live model, c.1979 Greetings rebels to King George and curious others...   W...