Category Archives: War and military

2 published posts in this category.

Understanding the present by listening to the past: Walter Lippmann's "The Public Philosophy"

One way to get beneath the surface of what's going on is to read people who were writing about issues, as they emerged rather than in more modern times when they’d become the norm and become infused in our commonsense. I was browsing in one of the few remaining second-hand boo...

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Posted in Politics - international, History, Political theory, Democracy, Sortition and citizens’ juries, War and military

The ultimate sanction

I circulated this podcast in my newsletter last week indicating that I hadn't yet listened to it. Then I did. It was a doozy. In response to the question of what the West should actually do if Russia started using nukes, the interviewee’s body language held up for a paragraph...

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Posted in War and military