May 22, 2024

Democracy as a Force for the Common Good

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  In a short 250 or so pages James Miller makes clear in hjs book,  Can Democracy Work?  A Short History of a Radical Idea from Ancient Athe...
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May 14, 2024

The Last Bastion to Protect Our Democracy--The Judgement and Common Sense of the American People

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    I have often remarked, somewhat naively in retrospect, that our democracy would be protected by a number of factors, including  the bala...

The Need for a Unifying Vision

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  In an essay in   The Atlantic , titled “After Babel:  How Social Media Dissolved the Mortar of Society and Made American Stupid,” Jonathan...
May 3, 2024

A Missed Opportunity That Will Go Down in the Annals of History--The Failure to Impeach Donald Trump

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  I wrote the letter below last week to one of the senators (unnamed) who failed to move to find Donald Trump guilty for his multiple action...
April 7, 2024

We Have to Walk Away from Mortal Threat to Our Democracy---Looking Back Eight Years

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 I rarely repost a blog. I make an exception here because of  the mortal threat to our Democracy which Donald Trump represents.  "WE HA...
March 19, 2024

The Challege of Balancing Liberal Ideals and Pragmatic Means

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   Hal Brands, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has written a thought provoking essay, titled  The...
March 15, 2024

What the Partition of India and Pakistan of Almost 80 Years Ago May Teach About Healing the Wounds of Israel and Pakistan

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    I finished reading the bloodcurdling, mesmerizing,  The Great Partition:    The Making of India and Pakistan  by Yasmin Khan.     I find...