Apocalyptic thinking on the Left about climate change risks burning their...
Summary: Epistemic closure has infected both Left and Right in America. Examples of this on the Right are legion. Today we look at an example on the Left, and its potentially severe consequences for...
View ArticleHow to Create a National Insecurity State.
Summary: An essential part of leaning as citizens is learning on whom to rely. We don’t do this well, an important part of the FAILure to learn which has imperiled the Republic. Today Tom Engelhard —...
View ArticleThe 1% build a New America on the ruins of the old.
Summary: Today’s article by Tom Engelhardt discusses what might be the greatest issue of our age, the fall of the Second American Republic (built on the Constitution) as the 1% builds a new political...
View ArticleStep back and see The New American Order
Summary: This is the second half of Tom Engelhardt’s essay about the New America the 1% erects on the remains of the America-that-once-was. This is the vital fact necessary to understand our...
View ArticleTom Engelhardt: the key to winning wars in the 21st Century
Summary: The greatest US tragedy since 9/11 is our failure to learn from our failed wars, making it impossible to win future wars. We roll on from one disaster to another even larger disaster. Our wars...
View ArticleThomas Frank explains how the Democrats became Liberals for the Rich
Summary: The insurgencies on the Left and Right against their parties’ elites by populists and progressives has been much discussed but little analyzed. Previous posts discussed how the Republican...
View ArticleHow We Learned Not To Care About Our Wars
Summary: Sunday’s post discussed the price we pay for our wars in money and blood. Today Andrew Bachevich (Colonel, US Army, retired) explains how we have forgotten about these wars and the price paid...
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The Great Charter. Its Fate, and Ours.
Tweet Summary: The past decade has seen us stripped of civil liberties dating back to the signing of Magna Carta in 1215, and won through centuries of struggle since then. As the Founders feared...
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America’s Shadow Wars in Africa
Tweet Summary: There’s an institutional drive for growth, just like that in biological entities. Sometimes it become cancerous, inimical to the overall organism. So it is with our mad profitless...
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Mission Failure: Afghanistan
Tweet Summary: The very first articles articles at DNI, in 2003, expressed skepticism about the Afghanistan War. By 2009 it was clear that we could achieve nothing useful from the war. But our...
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