The End of Legitimacy?
During the final Presidential debate, both candidates where asked, once again, if they would accept the outcome of the election. Before 80,000,000 viewers, Donald Trump said, "I'll tell you at the tim...
26 Okt 201655min
Machiavelli, Public and Private Positions, and Hillary Clinton
In a recently revealed document, Hillary Clinton said to a group of real estate investors, "you need both a public and private position." Earlier in the year, during a highly paid speech for executive...
19 Okt 201659min
JS Mill's Philosophy of Anxiety and its Role in Personal and Political Transformation
This is the season of Political Anxiety. A recent article in Reuters recommends to Americans anxious about the current political environment to "stop reading the news and take up yoga." While yoga is ...
14 Okt 201654min
Locke's Philosophy of Law, the State of War, and Wells Fargo
The only separating the State of War from the Political community is the law, and the willingness and ability of the legal and political institutions to enforce it. When individuals or corporations en...
7 Okt 201655min
Donald Trump, Guns, and the On-Going Crisis of Political Legitimacy
In a recent speech about the issue of gun ownership in America, Donald Trump said about Hillary Clinton: "I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons . . . I think they should disarm. Immediat...
28 Sep 201637min
Colin Kaepernick, Martin Luther King, and the Philosophy of Protest and Civil Disobedience
Two weeks ago, Colin Kaepernick decided to "sit-out" the National Anthem. He did so to call attention to, and protest, what he believes to be systemic and institutional racism in American culture and ...
21 Sep 201642min
Requiem for Liberal-Democratic Capitalism
In a recent editorial in the "Financial Times," the eminent British economics writer, Martin Wolf, warned that Liberal Democracy and Capitalism are heading for a cataclysmic rupture! In this episode, ...
14 Sep 201648min
Locke, the US Constitution and the New Machiavellian Prince.
In our fourth and final installment of our series on the transition from Liberal Democracy to Authoritarian Democracy, "Locke, the US Constitution and the New Machiavellian Prince." we examine the the...
7 Sep 201654min
