Tag: democracy
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Notes from an Alaska trip (2025)
“I enlisted in the Marines when I was 17, and when I got back from Vietnam two years later, I was an E5 Sergeant, 19 years old. It was 1970. And I couldn’t buy a beer.” Our white-bearded, energetic driver smiled at his reminiscence. “The age was 21. Well, here in the state of Alaska,…
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Presidential election analysis: a clash of beliefs around our governance (2024)
Next Tuesday’s election will manifest a divergence of belief around our national government–not belief in the value of specific policies, but belief in the established norms and institutions of our government themselves, in whether the game of republican democracy should even continue. One side more-or-less still believes in equality of persons before the law, accountability,…
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