Is This Really Socialism?
There are a lot of policies being promoted under the name of socialism by Democrats in the runup to this fall's mid-term elections (and espe...
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Edifice of Trust Podcast
The Edifice of Trust is a podcast that provides discussion and analysis of today’s current events from the perspective of America’s Founding Principles. Based on Enlightenment philosophy as...
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Socialism Upended
Within two months of his election as president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez held a referendum for a constitutional assembly to change the basic...
Forever Negotiations
A few days ago President Trump announced a temporary pause in kinetic warfare against Iran in order to give diplomatic negotiations another...
American Suicide
For 250 years John Adams has been wrong about the imminent demise of American democracy. And while President Trump's vision of American grea...
There is no Deus Ex Machina
The campaign promises of politicians are similar to the theatrical plot device known as deus ex machina, something (in ancient Greek dramas...
Mother Nature's Revenge
About a million years ago, our prehistoric ancestors were reduced to barely thirteen hundred individuals, a so-called genetic bottleneck. If...
Gag Reflex
The candidates for the upcoming 2026 elections that are being chosen by the Republicans and Democrats (aka MAGA and DSA) are repellent to sa...
Old Time Religion
Many of the early colonists came to North America so that they could practice their interpretation of the Christian faith for which they wer...
The Next Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation was made up of millions of ordinary Americans that rose to the challenges of the Great Depression and the Second Wor...
So, Elon's a Trillionaire - Let's Tax the Hell Outta him
As the largest shareholder in the newly public company, SpaceX, Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire. And it is only a matter of...
The origin of MAGA Politics
Nicholas Wade, in his most recent book the Origin of Politics, tries to use evolution to justify why a nation state based on ethnicity, lang...
No Art in this Deal
Peace talks with Iran are ongoing but, seemingly, going nowhere. As Condoleezza Rice stated in a recent op-ed, no deal is better than a bed...
Rooting for the Underdog
Americans love to root for the underdog. But rooting for an underdog doesn't mean we want to tilt the field in the underdog's favor. We want...
Stolen Franchise
There is no big tent in the Republican Party. Only loyalty to President Trump and his agenda is acceptable. Everyone else must be purged and...
Sports Betting and Other Vices
Watching a golf tournament on Sunday afternoon has become a non-stop barrage of adverts for betting, announcers discussing of the odds for e...
Its not 1965 Anymore
The Supreme Court's decision to strike down minority-majority voting districts presumably required under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has b...
Misunderstanding Democracy
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave a speech at the University of Texas celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Indep...
democratic writing (small d democratic)
Danielle Allen describes in her book, Our Declaration, the lengthy and difficult process behind the writing of the Declaration of Independen...
Athens, Rome and Jerusalem
The well-educated Founders of America structured the new nation based on the classical literature of Democratic Athens and the Roman Republi...
No Commissars
The No Kings protests were touted as a great success as millions turned out into the streets while the rest of us were inundated by widespre...