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Life after door kicking.

Category: Politics & Policy

  • Are We Already Fucking It Up?

    Are We Already Fucking It Up?Life is expensive, and seemingly getting more expensive.Very few people seem to be debating that. What there does seem to be a growing debate over what government should do about it.Three of life’s biggest expenses are housing, education, and healthcare. These are three expenses Americans seem incapable of discussing without…

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  • What We Call Progress—And What It Cost

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    People like to ask what happened to the days when a single job—something like retail—could support a family.The usual answers get thrown around: greed, policy, bad luck.But that misses the bigger picture.Some of the things we call progress came with unintended consequences.And whether we want to admit it or not, we’re living in them now.…

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  • Security First, Freedom Later — The Ancient Shell Game

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    Everyone claims to value freedom. Ask a hundred people whether they would rather live free or not, and all hundred will say yes. But history and human behavior tell a more complicated story. When faced with uncertainty, instability, or danger, people consistently choose security over liberty.This choice is not foolish — it is practical. Human…

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  • Republic to Empire: The Middle-Class Legitimacy Collapse

    We are living through the transition phase from republic to empire — unless we correct course rapidly.Faith in institutions didn’t collapse overnight. It eroded quietly, unevenly, and predictably. Accountability stopped flowing upward. Standards stopped applying evenly. The system learned it could absorb scandal after scandal without consequence — so long as enforcement remained efficient where…

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  • Death to mYseLF?

    Scrolling through social media lately has been a little mind-blowing. A large swath of Americans seem to have completely lost their confidence in their own nation. I’m seeing posts openly rooting for the Iranian military—what’s left of it—against the United States. People celebrating Iranian strikes on U.S. sites. People cheering retaliation. The usual anti-American leadership…

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  • Learning to rebel against yourself.

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    When I was young, Tupac felt like the deepest philosopher alive. He shaped the way I saw injustice and what we owe each other. Back then, I honestly believed the purpose of government was simple: help the people who can’t help themselves. Universal healthcare? Seemed like a no-brainer.Housing the homeless? I still think that one…

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  • Two Wars, One Generation: Why Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans Deserve Proper Recognition

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    For more than twenty years, American service members fought across two completely different battlefields: Afghanistan and Iraq. A lot of us — myself included — served in both. But the way our awards are structured, you’d think those deployments were all part of one single conflict. Anyone who actually fought in them knows that’s not…

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  • Enriching Your Conqueror : The Cost of Confusing Ideology for Strategy

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    If Russia is the existential threat European leaders claim it is, then their behavior makes no sense. For over a decade they’ve warned of Russian aggression while funding it through energy dependence, under investing in their own defense, and redirecting moral outrage toward the one alliance that actually deters Moscow. This isn’t about ideology or…

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  • Argentina’s Libertarian Experiment: A Real-World Trial

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    Commentators predicted mass suffering.Headlines promised chaos. As Javier Milei rose to power, I started observing something rare: my political ideology undergoing a real-world trial, not in a think tank or a debate hall, but in a country already brought to its knees by decades of bad policy. To the uninitiated, what followed seemed unexpected. After…

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