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This post is a defense of the ideal of The Open Society which is presently under serious attack by the “Make America Great Again” crowd, with their various authoritarian, white supremacist dog whistles.
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On March 16, 2017, Mick Mulvaney, Director of the OMB did seek mightily to defend the proposed budget of the POTUS before a gathering of the press.
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What is the secret of the pathological narcissist? We need to fill the hole at the center of this gaslighting and narcissism discussion.
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In this installment of Mourning in America, I now turn to consideration of Trump as a pathological narcissist.
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In the invocation of unitary executive power to say that executive orders are unreviewable, we hear strong echoes of fascist decisionism.
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This post is ultimately about the new American populism as seen through the prism of “the view from nowhere.” The four views from nowhere described together cast light upon the radical discontinuities presently found within our culture.
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Appearing on AC360 on January 12th 2017, unconscionable hack Jeffrey Lord and Professor and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich did cross swords.
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Anti-corruption, along with liberty, is deeply rooted in the republican intentions of the US Constitution.
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The birthday of Benedict Arnold today reminds us of why the framers of the Constitution were obsessed with the risks associated with mixing government service with private business, especially where it had to do with foreign powers.
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Gaslighting is weaponized bullshit. Where the bullshitter seeks to impress, the gaslighter seeks rather to destroy.
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Anti-fascist solidarity will require an understanding of how it is that class resentments have been manipulated to bring about an illiberal ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’ as some sort of a solution to the hegemonic crisis of neoliberalism.
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