Archive - PastPresentFuture

The Disease of the Powerful

Intellectual arrogance cripples the powerful but it is a danger to us all.

Nov 19 •

A few notes about this and that

Nov 17 •

Is this the End of an Era? Or even a Watershed of History?

Maybe. Maybe not. It is literally impossible to know -- and anyone who says otherwise is deluded or selling you something.

Nov 17 •

On Remembrance Day

Some thoughts of mine followed by a guest essay by a Canadian soldier

Nov 11 •

"Keep Buggering On"

First, a reason to pull your hair out harder. Then a reason to hope.

Nov 7 •

October 2024

Why is American political discourse so radically different than the daily life of Americans?

Oct 26 •

The Counterculture and Donald Trump

The long culture war is over, the counterculture won, and Donald Trump is conservatives' final humiliation.

Oct 26 •

What A Real Leader Sounds Like

FDR's first inaugural address is a reminder -- and a rebuke to much lesser men

Oct 20 •

Elon Musk's "True Test of Character"

Let's compare how two presidents responded to near-assassination

Oct 19 •

September 2024

What The News Needs Is More History

How do we make sense of the present? By comparing it to the past. No past, no comparison, no making sense.

Sep 22 •

August 2024

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