Word is leaking out that a majority of Americans are sick at the thought of a presidential election where the choices would be limited to Biden and Trump. I would be one of them, except, in the land of the… Read More ›
Politics
A History of Equality and Equal Opportunity
The meaning of a word can evolve with time, sometimes by nuance. In political philosophy, the word equality has evolved in different ways on either side of the Atlantic. In the USA, political equality has traditionally meant equal opportunity, while… Read More ›
Look to the Middle II
Looking for the Political Middle in 2024 Most people would agree that today’s news media are polarized, leaning either toward extreme progressive or extreme conservative positions. It seems pretty believable that financially-vulnerable, online media operators might seek clicks at the… Read More ›
My Presidential Candidate Speech
( © C.R. “Gus” Manning 2022 ) My fellow Americans. As a candidate for public office, I want to share my views on what I believe are the important issues confronting our nation. This talk will reflect my desire to… Read More ›
How Bad is the USA?
Based on a torrent of negative media coverage over the past few years, you could get the impression that the USA is a pretty bad place. One way to assess how bad the USA might actually be would be to… Read More ›
A Centrist’s View of the California Governor’s Recall Election
Ignoring goofy radio ads, the most obvious way to look at the California governor recall is that recalling Newsome would be “blaming him for everything”. While that is a legitimate view, here is another equally legitimate view. California has been… Read More ›
Waking Up to Woke II
Waking up to Woke, Part II In earlier writing, I characterized some tenets of “woke” activism as follows: (1) Systemic racism is endemic, though we have no evidence for it. (2) White people generally are responsible for bad things other… Read More ›
Hoppy’s Lecture on Liberty & Property – 1961
It was Friday, and raining in central Ohio, as I took my seat in history class just to the left of the aisle and one row back from Cary Ross’s seat on the right of the aisle. From this vantage… Read More ›
Waking Up To Woke
The term “woke” has acquired wide currency. According to Google, it means: “awareness of issues that concern social justice and racial justice”. Surprisingly, it seems that people on all sides of the culture war have a similar understanding of “woke”. … Read More ›
What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?
The title above is actually the name of a 1968 film starring Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard. In this film the two actors, who usually play straight-arrow types, are weirdly cast as a beatnik/hippie artist couple living in sin… Read More ›
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