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…
Tag: Liberal Democracy
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…