Tag Archives: Communism

To Talk of Many Things… (Vol. #5 – Unalienable Rights and Nouveau Marxists)

Posted on July 17, 2019 by

“But wait a bit,” the Oysters cried, “Before we have our chat; For some of us are out of breath, And all of us are fat!” There is a case to be made by philosophers and historians that the greatest … Continue reading →

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Our Coming Dystopia

Posted on March 6, 2019 by

It was probably a sunny day like today when Atlantis sank to the bottom of the sea. Was it an earthquake? A tsunami? Some kind of tribal violence which wiped away those who could run the reactors and the food … Continue reading →

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Venezuela’s ALBA: A Reflection 7 Years On

Posted on March 5, 2019 by

Seven years ago, as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, I wrote my (and perhaps the…?) hallmark book on the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas: Hugo Chavez’s grand plan. At the time I received a lot of push-back, … Continue reading →

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The 2018/19 Maduro Diet

Posted on February 24, 2019 by

It is said that Marie Antoinette, when she offhandedly suggested regarding the hunger of starving peasants “Let them eat cake” was not mocking the suffering of the poor but was so disconnected from reality that she assumed that it was … Continue reading →

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The Power of Progress

Posted on February 15, 2019 by

Words are funny things, slippery and somehow hard to pin down; little moving targets making thought difficult or missiles correctly aimed in order to destroy in far worse ways than the whips and chains of old. Language has always been … Continue reading →

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A Green New Deal? – Part IV

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

Well this has been fun, distilling the “Green New Deal” into bite-size chunks (sorry for oversimplifying things, for which I will be routinely pilloried – as it is, this has been too long and I have risked becoming a bore). … Continue reading →

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A Green New Deal? – Part III

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

As I think through our current environmental problem, I realize that I am not the most sanguine of interlocutors. I do not see our future brightly, perched as I am at the inverse of epicenter where the waves of destruction … Continue reading →

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