Liberty's Torch

(a.k.a. Bastion Of Liberty)

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy,
And the dogs that bark revolution.
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies!"
(Robinson Jeffers)

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

“While The Balance Of His Mind Was Disturbed”

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     Boromir strode up and down, speaking ever more loudly. Almost he seemed to have forgotten Frodo, while his talk dwelt on walls and weap...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Telescreens 2026

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     Yes, this one is about these devices:      Flock has 120,000 cameras in 49 states that capture 20 billion license plates a month—alon...
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Monday, August 24, 2026

Irreconcilable Differences

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     [A short story for you. This one is a little stranger than most of my oeuvre. Be warned. – FWP. ]      Alan Donaldson was utterly b...
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Saturday, August 22, 2026

Exhausted

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     Forgive me, Gentle Readers. I overdid it massively these past two days and am on the verge of collapse. I’m taking the weekend off from...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Hard Cases And Treating Symptoms

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     “Hard cases make bad law” entered the catalogue of American legal maxims through Associate Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Influencers, Those They Influence, And Those Who Influence Them

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     I have to run off to a dentist’s appointment in a little while, so this will be a quickie. We speak of “influencers” today as if opinio...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

2026’s Most Inconvenient Question

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     In the philosophical realm, arguments about meaning can go on forever. Meaning arises from interpretation, which makes it a personal m...
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