Marble Falls Not having made it through higher education except in starts and stops over a couple of years, I can’t pretend to be an expert in all of the ends and outs of the academy, as understood in the United States. Along with most Americans, though, I do understand the institutional claims …
State Capture, American Style
Marble Falls In the old days, maybe even as recently as a couple of months ago, countries might look to the United States as a guide to what might happen positively in their own country. Now the tables have turned. Americans can now learn about what is happening in their own country, by looking …
America, the Pariah State
Marble Falls Too many well-meaning mothers have told their children, “Hey, go out and change the world!” I think it’s fair to say that most of them meant “for the better.” In the last couple of months under the Trump-Musk government, we’ve found out that in some families they needed to be much, …