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From Salem to the Reich to America today: A Civic Parable (opens the original)
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In Direct Democracy and the Curse of the Boiled Frogs, Joseph Jenkins draws a provocative line from the Salem Witch Trials to Nazi Germany, warning how mass hysteria and scapegoating can corrode democratic norms—even in vastly different historical contexts.¹ His metaphor of the “boiled frog” captures the slow, almost imperceptible erosion of civic vigilance, where citizens fail to notice the rising temperature of authoritarian drift until it’s too late.² Read more
Ideas about dynamics at times of radical change. (opens the original)
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Mannheim tells us that at times of rapid change, we need the ability to sever “all connection with life and with the contingencies of our existence. Otherwise, we are tied to a disappearing past, questing for profits in the present with no regard for the future, or utopian visions of what can never be.This fits with the ideas of sociologists Max Weber and Emile Durkheim who tell us that at times of change old norms, values, beliefs, traditions and rituals lose their power to maintain social orde
Book review essay focusing on Autocracy Inc by Appelbaum and We The People by Lepore. (opens the original)
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Autocracy Inc., We the People and the Global Struggle Against Autocracy Read more
Is my freedom paid for by subjugation of others? (opens the original)
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A great debate since the 1930s has been between ontological radical individualism like Walter Lippmann, F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman vs an ontological frame of individualism within the context of time and place.The views of Lippmann et al have ancient roots including James Madison's view that while we are all born with equal rights we have differing talents and ambitions which should be unregulated regardless of unequal outcomes.Karl Mannheim, for one, argues that unfettered freedom leads tow
A new Axial Age or the return of the Minotaur? (opens the original)
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As we look ahead, the struggle now unfolding between public institutions and private platforms—captured starkly in the recent confrontation between the Department of Defense and Anthropic over the governance of frontier AI systems—reveals the stakes of the coming era. Read more
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