Policy Based on Pain

The moment serving turns into punishing, the game’s over. If your plan requires injury and making life worse so people beg for your solution, that’s leverage and a terrorist shakedown, not leadership. Calmly describing pain as a way to push through policy is just a deranged psychopath’s pragmatism. Well, at least you know your candidate…

A New Golden Age

There was something pitiful in Fukuyama’s vision, a kind of intellectual resignation that only emerges from the deepest well of cultural despair. The Western world, once so confident in its destiny, had by the late 20th century become a wasteland of exhausted ideals. Its great philosophical traditions—rationalism, enlightenment, progress—had all run aground, and what remained…