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Are We Doomed?

Physics tells us all things are doomed, via entropy — but there’s another way of looking at the universe, depending on your preferred timeline …

What Comes Next?

History is not a science — it doesn’t predict the future, or “repeat itself.” But studying history does develop critical thinking and other great skills. It shouldn’t be minimized!

Rating Ourselves as Information Consumers

We all have our favorite information bubbles, but they’re not necessarily bad. The secret is to accept that they don’t reflect the whole world!

What’s Wrong with the Constitution?

Our Constitution is pretty stable, by world standards, perhaps too stable? Amendments do sometimes work!

Is the Age of Neoliberalism Finally Over?

Neoliberalism has become an epithet in economic circles lately, but what replaces it? It’s time to move on beyond the politically charged labels we hear in election campaigns …

Abundance vs. Scarcity

The Abundance Mindset and Scarcity Mindset of Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” don’t get created only by sheer will power or “positive thinking”!

Internal Contradiction of Liberalism

Under attack from both Left and Right, liberalism today seems truly endangered, should it be?

Does Democracy Have a Future in America?

Why do things look grim for liberal democracy these days? How can our traditional democratic values fight back? Can we get together on any unimpeachable authority?

Published October 26, 2019 in Warp & Woof Leftist or Liberal? Where Do You Fit? William Sundwick Modern liberalismgoes back a long way. Let’s start with John Locke in the 17thcentury. He came up with the idea that governments exist to serve the needs of the people. Obvious to us now, but directly opposed toContinue reading “Leftist or Liberal?”

The Center Cannot Hold

Published August 22, 2019 in Warp & Woof The Center Cannot Hold A Primer for 21st Century Political Labels William Sundwick Left and Right. It all started in 1789 with Louis XVI and his National Assembly. The body was reaction to the revolution that year, and the storming of the Bastille. The king knew heContinue reading “The Center Cannot Hold”