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Commentary on the interrelationships of the political, economic, and social spheres.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Character Trumps Tribe, Part III
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We’ve spent a couple of posts so far talking about “tribes.” I’m using this term to mean group, or identity, such as race or ethnicity. ...
Monday, October 27, 2014
Character Trumps Tribe, Part II
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In "Character Trumps Tribe, Part I " we started talking about the difference between loyalty to tribe and loyalty to goodness. Thi...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Character Trumps Tribe, Part I
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The attack on freedom of religion by Houston Mayor Annise Parker brought to mind a point about identity politics. Or, to frame it from a b...
Monday, October 20, 2014
Century of Civilization Training
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We take a break today from commenting on painful decay and problems in the news, and instead look at some positive signs of civilization...
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Houston's Intolerance Problem Is the Mayor
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Houston; we have a problem. It’s the mayor, Annise Parker. She’s notable for being the first openly homosexual mayor of a major US city....
Monday, October 13, 2014
The Executive Is No Angel
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There are a couple of quotes I’d like to contrast. This first is from James Madison, in The Federalist Papers, #51: What is government i...
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Supreme Disservice
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Monday, October 6, 2014, goes down in history as a great sin of omission—a moment when something could have been done for the sake of ci...
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