Tag: Politics

  • The Long Ledger: Part 2

    The Shell Game Cold War Geopolitics and the Redistribution of Colonial Wealth, 1945–1991 The Cold War is usually taught as a clash of ideologies, and the ideologies were real. Liberal democracy and Soviet communism were genuinely incompatible visions of how human society should be organized, and both superpowers believed, at least partly, in what they…

  • The Long Ledger: Part 3

    Free Markets as Foreign Policy Trade Agreements, Capitalist Hegemony, and the Limits of Economic Freedom, 1991–2008 When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, something unusual happened in Western intellectual life: a significant number of serious people decided that history had ended. Not literally, of course, but in the sense that the great contest of…

  • The Price of War We Refuse to Pay for Ourselves

    The article questions why significant funds are consistently allocated for military endeavors, such as the ongoing Operation Epic Fury, while essential domestic programs like healthcare, homelessness assistance, and education remain underfunded. It argues that the financial capability exists for these social programs but is a matter of political choice rather than fiscal inability.

  • The Hollowed School: What Is Happening to Public Education in Kentucky and Why It Matters

    Kentucky’s public schools are being squeezed from four directions at once. The numbers from Frankfort, JCPS, and FCPS tell a story every educator needs to read.

  • The Pentagon’s AI Ultimatum: What It Means for Privacy

    HYDRA Has a Server Farm: AI, the Pentagon, and What We Should All Be Watching There is a scene near the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier where Steve Rogers stands in front of S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and tells a room full of agents that the organization they have served has been secretly building a…

  • Keep Discovery at Udvar-Hazy: A Case for Preserving Context Over Politics

    The article argues for keeping Space Shuttle Discovery at Udvar-Hazy, emphasizing its historical context, accessibility, and educational value, while proposing Houston focus on modern spaceflight narratives.