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Is society coming apart?

November 25, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the 11/25/2021 Guardian “Long Read” is Jill Lepore on post covid society, a summary of the modern social fabric, with her usual historical detail. “Other scholars see more continuity, an unbroken tradition of liberal and social democracy on the left, from early 20th-century progressivism down to the 21st-century version. But no one disputes that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: American Enterprise Institute, Chamath Palihapitiya, COVID-19, De Sola Pool, De Tocqueville, Franklin D Roosevelt, Government, Hegel, industrialism, Internet, liberal, libertarian, Marx, neoconservative, pandemic, Reagan, Robert Nisbet, Romantics, society, Thatcher, thinkers, utopian socialists, worldviews

Trump’s Debt to Ron Paul’s Paranoid Style

January 21, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A post in the New York Review of Books by James Kirchick sums up Trump’s penchant for the weird (conspiracy theories) and his far-right beliefs. We can read it here.

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Alex Jones, conspiracy theories, gad-fly, libertarian, Paranoid, Ron Paul, Trump

Disruption games

November 19, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

An analysis from the Guardian (11/19/17) on “Why are libertarians lining up with autocrats to undermine democracy?” is found here. However, the long-term corrosive effect of Russia’s use of disinformation to break down trust in western institutions is hard to measure and may be unmeasurable. What is clear is that it is continuing with the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Assange, Brexit, Edward Snowden, Fake News, fake Twitter accounts, libertarian, Putin, radical libertarians, Russia, Russian, Snowden, Sputnik, Trump, Twitter, Wikileaks

Misinforming the Majority

August 25, 2017 by sergneri 1 Comment

An interview by Mark Karlin, Truthout magazine, with writer Nancy MacLean, who’s book ‘Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America’ shines a light on the work of economist James McGill Buchanan who’s work inspired the Koch brothers, among others. If you have the nerve after 6+ months of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: ALEC, Americans for Prosperity, Americans for Tax Reform, Brown v. Board of Education, Concerned Veterans of America, decentralization, deregulation, devolution, F.A. Hayek, federalism, Freedom Caucus, Freedom Partners, Generation Opportunity, George Mason University, James McGill Buchanan, Judicial Watch, Koch, libertarian, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Nancy MacLean, privatization, rightwing, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Cato Institute, the Club for Growth, the Donors Trust, the Heritage Foundation, the Independent Institute, the Institute for Justice, the Leadership Institute, the Mercatus Center, Truthout, Truthout magazine, Tyler Cowen

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