political philosophy

Real change does not happen often. For assumptions to change you need a crisis. You need a set of problems...

The only question, today, is how long we’ll stay in the Brezhnev Trap, and what we will lose before we...

Optimism works in politics, and it works in economics. Optimism in politics brings people together. In economics it leads to...

This period of excess is bringing the limits of our nationalism into the open. The next Thesis must accept that,...

Open source is an approach to governance that is based, like the original New Deal, on an attitude. It's not...

Because there are so many people around today who are active, vital, but whose politics were defined by the Nixon...

The key, when the crisis comes, will be to have unity among the non-haters, so we can build a politics...

If China's leaders ever learn the basic lesson of dealing with the Internet -- first listen -- then watch out.

A Thesis explains a Crisis, an Anti-Thesis rises to challenge this and fails, then an Excess leads to a new...

Cole is better off. Any University that lets money or political influence trump its academics is, by definition, not an...