Life after door kicking.

Tag: public policy

  • A Tale Of Two Solutions.

    How many of our political disagreements persist because we’re arguing past each other? We criticize the other side’s conclusions because they don’t solve the problem as we understand it, without first asking whether they’re trying to solve a different problem altogether. When the left argues for a living wage, many on the right respond that…

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  • Things run so smooth we forget they’re not guaranteed to

    I heard recently that we’ve moved to a post-scarcity society—and that it wasn’t even up for debate.Stopping at the gas station in the morning shatters that illusion.If we were actually post-scarcity, there’d be no shortages. Prices wouldn’t exist. Geography wouldn’t matter. Conflicts on the other side of the world wouldn’t touch anything here because you…

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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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  • Knee-Jerk Empathy Leads to More Victims, Or why “doing something” isn’t the same as doing something useful

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    In the wake of tragedy, familiar arguments rush back into the headlines. Recent shootings—both abroad and at home—have once again reignited the gun control debate, accompanied by alarming statistics and emotionally charged claims. That reaction is understandable. Grief demands answers. But urgency is not clarity, and too often this debate relies on misleading definitions and…

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