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A Refreshed Perspective on the Common Good (opens the original)
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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” -- Edward AbbeyFor 10 days, a friend of more than 60 years and I traveled Utah’s scenic highways and byways to iconic parks and relatively little-known gems. We basked in brilliant sunshine, dodged showers, were deluged by downpours, marveled at incredible vistas and dark skies, held our breath descending cork-screw switchbacks by both car and mule, and
ICE Strikes Even Harder When It Touches A Long-Time Friend (opens the original)
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Learned this morning that a SoCal friend of 10 years was arrested yesterday by ICE agents while continuing to follow the prescribed procedures for securing documented status. While providing biometric information at the local Citizenship and Immigration Services Office, he was arrested, and transported to the detention facility in the desert at Adelanto, CA. His wife holds a green-card and his son is a US citizen. Being undocumented is a condition the US had tolerated for decades because it need
A Political Lexicon for Today’s Times (opens the original)
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About 70 years ago, in what was then called junior high school, I spent many enjoyable hours wandering through Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, jumping randomly from one entry to another based on what caught my fancy or triggered a question – finding synonyms, etymologies and derivations, historical references. I had no plan or over-all objective: just to see and perhaps absorb whatever I discovered.This week, on a lark, I loosed an AI tool on our political environment, to see what dicti
More Reflections on Republican Rome and the US (opens the original)
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In my high-tech days, I could always rely on the trenchant observations of a business colleague whose perspectives enriched my own understanding. His comments on last week’s “History May Not Repeat – But It Surely Rhymes” post prompted me to consider several points. I interpreted them as follows:Project 2025 identified Constitutional fissures and lacunae and institutional weaknesses that the administration has exploited by acting “first and faster” than either the Congress or the Courts normally
History May Not Repeat -- But It Surely Rhymes (opens the original)
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As always, the objective is not to have the final word, but to sharpen the questions.The Founders viewed Rome the way lawyers view precedent. Classical education in the eighteenth century meant Greek democracy and Roman republicanism — not as ornament, but as case law for the question that consumed them: How does a free people keep itself free?Plato warned democracy decays when the mob is flattered rather than governed. Polybius showed that power divided among rival bodies survives longer than p
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