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Are we in decline?

Don’t read this further looking for data to support my thesis. I readily admit that this post is anecdotal in nature and am sure that some MAGA types will argue it. Nonetheless…. As I watch and travel and listen and read, I see only evidence that the USA is in decline. Decline from what? TheContinue reading “Are we in decline?”

My time with Robert Reich and Naomi Klein

Over the last couple of weeks I read these two books. Robert Reich’s book “Coming Up Short” and Naomi Klein’s book “Doppelganger.” Reich’s title is a play on the fact that he is extraordinarily short (just under 5 feet tall) and the fact that our democracy has come up way short in recent years. IContinue reading “My time with Robert Reich and Naomi Klein”

Are we a heartless nation?

I have never thought so. I was brought up to believe that we – the USA – are not only the most powerful nation on earth, but also the one that takes care of the world. We spent billions in Africa, we ran to the defense of a multitude of peoples who we thought wereContinue reading “Are we a heartless nation?”

The Populist Assault

This is the title of one subsection of a chapter in Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. The book was published last year, before the latest presidential election in the USA. However, this section about populism scares me….some excerpts from the book below:Continue reading “The Populist Assault”