Notes from the Circus

Notes from the Circus

No, Donald Trump Is Not Receiving Bad Advice
Blaming the advisers allows Trump’s defenders to disagree with him without mentioning his name, and at face value, the excuse serves as an indictment
7 hrs ago • Mike Brock
The Thing About Cowardice
The executives that knelt to Trump did not merely embarrass themselves; they instructed an entire industry to remain silent.
Oct 24 • Mike Brock
Too Big to Nationalize
The moment a company becomes critical infrastructure, it has a responsibility to the public, and the men who revere capitalism as America's highest…
Oct 22 • Mike Brock
It Was Always an Emergency
Ukraine is now being handed the bill for American complacency, which came due twenty months after the ambush in the Oval Office.
Oct 21 • Mike Brock
The Politics of Nothing Can Be Done
What the punditry of inevitability is really for becomes clear once you revisit two years of self-assured predictions about Latino realignment, Zohran…
Oct 19 • Mike Brock
Materialism Cannot Be True
Why this agnostic monist with no taste for the supernatural thinks the materialist picture of reality defeats itself, and why the evidence has started…
Oct 18 • Mike Brock
Yes, It’s Your Job to Convince People
How the left traded persuasion for purity, taught the persuadable to stay silent, and handed the right its free-speech material.
Oct 17 • Mike Brock
The Map and the Landscape: A Generation Lost in Space
How separating the humanities from STEM encourages us to mistake technical competence for understanding and a right to rule.
Oct 16 • Mike Brock
On Defending Western Civilization
Against those who confuse civilization with domination, and those too embarrassed to defend the difference.
Oct 12 • Mike Brock
The Broken Windows of the Lost Libertarian Utopia
What the market fundamentalists refuse to count
Oct 10 • Mike Brock
The Hands That Remain Still
On the people waiting for a safer time to do the right thing
Oct 9 • Mike Brock
No, We Cannot Agree to Disagree
On what you are asking me to overlook
Oct 9 • Mike Brock
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