Hard Analysis

Finding analytical insights that help illuminate this confusing time in history is difficult. Doing such analysis is hard, and giving an analysis that is more than just rhetorical flourish wrapped around ideological presuppositions would be to provide a “hard analysis.” I just finished reading such a hard analysis in Chaos and Governance in the Modern […]

What Should the Left Propose?

While in Italy I read a new book from Brazilian political theorist Roberto Mangabeira Unger called What Should the Left Propose? I don’t tend to identify with the label “left” these days (and certainly not “right”!) but I’m still interested in what different thinkers are coming up with as they try to grapple with this […]

Cause and Effect

Made it up to the top of the infamous Mt. Vesuvius, the same volcano that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum back in 79 A.D. Talk about your ultimate burps! Earth just lets it out and poof! In minutes amazing cities full of life, beauty, art, and so much more are buried in tons of ash and […]