Sleight of Mind with JC
Ideas so sharp they cut kings and gods alike. Dispatches from the Second Enlightenment—where illusions are dismantled and the mind becomes a weapon of awakening.
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It's Time for Guillotines (opens the original)
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The title belongs to Trevor Moore. He wrote the song as comedy. Watch it before you read this. Then ask yourself why a joke from a comedian who died in 2021 reads like a weather report in 2026.Today is Bastille Day. Two hundred thirty-seven years ago, on July 14, 1789, a Paris crowd stormed a royal fortress and prison, not because a pamphlet told them to, but because the state that ruled them had exhausted every remaining claim to their obedience. The Bastille held seven prisoners that day. The
Capitalists Without Capital (opens the original)
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It (opens the original)
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