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What’s Changed? What’s Different This Time?

This raises another question: how will the deflation of the Everything Bubble play out?

Causes generate effects. As noted in my previous post, if causal conditions have changed, the “guarantee” offered by statistics is empty. This leads to a simple question: what’s changed? Have the causal conditions changed enough to generate different results?

The status quo assumes the economy never really changes, and so the stimulus that worked last time will work again. This ignores the fundamental reality...

High School Reunions and Lost Liberties

I attended my 50th high school reunion last Saturday. The turnout for the Class of 1974 was predictably underwhelming. Approximately 35 out of a graduating class of over 400. Even it was actually 40, that’s 10 percent. Well, I don’t know, maybe that’s a good percentage for these things. Or at least average. I’m no expert on reunions.

It just seems like a 50th year reunion is a really big deal. Almost like a 50th wedding anniversary. But in 1974, we’d reached the height of apathy in America. The ...

A Wilderness of Mirrors: The Hegemon’s Last War

Andrei Martyanov has carved for himself a unique, haloed place when it comes to deep critical thinking of all matters of war and peace.

Andrei Martyanov has carved for himself a unique, haloed place when it comes to deep critical thinking of all matters of war and peace.

In his previous books, in his blog Reminiscence of the Future and in countless podcasts, he has become the go-to source when it comes to the inner workings of the Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine as well as The Big Pi...

The US Empire Does Not Seek Peace; Its Existence Depends on Endless War

On Tuesday the dementia-addled meat puppet who is still officially the President of the United States told the UN that he is working to bring a “greater measure of peace and stability to the middle east,” even as the US government pumps weapons into Israel so that it can continue its bloody massacres in Lebanon and Gaza.

On Wednesday Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told the press that “we don’t want to see this escalate” in Lebanon and that the US is working to “avoid a regional war”.

Only an...

What Does ChatGPT Know About Money?

Given the contentious topic of money and its influence on the world, I decided to see what ChatGPT “knows” about it.  I was surprised by the breadth of its responses, as well as its information on free market positions, especially those of the Austrian school.

Though my prompts (queries) were exactly as I present them here, ChatGPT was so expansive I had to edit its results due to article length restrictions.  For emphasis and to mark subject headings ChatGPT frequently used bold-face text.  I i...

The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom

One day almost two years ago in October of 2022, I sat down in my reading chair in the small, old house I have lived in (at that point) for 23 years and opened a book I’d just received from Amazon called The Quest for Community by political philosopher Robert Nisbet. Published in 1953, it was the first of the 18 books Nesbit would write, and remains his masterpiece and the book for which he is best known. The book is a study of our shared, if not instinctive, drive to be with others and an indic...

Supreme Court Unleashes Censors and Betrays Democracy

On the eve of the first presidential candidate debate, the Supreme Court gave a huge boost to Joe Biden to help him “fix” the 2024 election with maybe its worst decision of the year. It remains to be seen whether the court’s refusal to stop federal censorship will be a wooden stake in the credibility of American democracy.

The court ruled in the case of Murthy v. Missouri, a lawsuit brought by individuals censored on social media thanks to federal threats and machinations. Court decisions last y...

The Vast Pharmaceutical Conspiracy to Silence Dissent Online

Almost any viewpoint can be “proven” using the “correct” evidence and logic. Purely as a challenge, I’ve successfully done this in the past with beliefs I consider to be abhorrent and completely disagree with. Once you become familiar with the process, you begin to gain an appreciation for how ephemeral the truth is and how problematic it is that most people have filters they see through reality through that lead to them doing this even if it’s not deliberate (although if you watch carefully for...

The Politics of Like

I can’t help thinking about my old days spent at that great bar, the Bombay Bicycle Club in San Antonio, TX. In particular, I had in mind a couple of the regular characters I met there. Bernie, The Jewish Cowboy Boots Salesman; while I believe he was, somewhat surprisingly from Texas, he had a New York vibe; that is, he had a brash, in your face, arrogance. Maybe it was because his brother was a professional ticket scalper that Bernie always acted as if he had an edge or inside information. Anot...

In Bipartisan Panel, Kennedy Offers Solutions for America’s Chronic Disease Epidemic

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered the keynote address at “American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion,” hosted by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI). The event was held on September 23, in the Kennedy Caucus Room in the Senate.

The capacity crowd of 300 guests was joined by an online audience of over 100,000 across multiple streaming platforms. Speakers at the event included Harvard’s Dr. Chris Palmer, Stanford graduate and public health advocate Dr. Casey Means, New York Times best-selling author Cal...