A response to Khoa Sands ’26 On July 2, 1881 — exactly 105 years after the Continental Congress voted to declare American independence from Great Britain — President James A. Garfield was shot by a disgruntled, and likely schizophrenic, lawyer named Charles J. Guiteau. During the 1880 campaign cycle, an unknown Guiteau had supposedly delivered [...] The post Democracy in America, Not Bureaucracy in America first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
Corporate lawyers control the UK| UnHerd
Conservatives often imagine that winning statewide elections means gaining control over the machinery of government. But this is wrong—and dangerously so. For far too long, red states have confused the two. The assumption that political victory automatically confers political authority is one of the chief falsehoods circulating on the Right. It is the reason Republican... Read more about: Why Red States Can’t Govern The post Why Red States Can’t Govern appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
Bureaucracies are usually too self-serving to get partisan. The consequences of bad data are high, and error rates are pretty low — no matter who is president.| thedailyeconomy.org
[Though this video is not recent, the authors’ discussion remains relevant today.] Fair Observer Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and retired CIA Officer Glenn Carle dissect the question: “Donald Trump 2.0: Are lunatics now running the asylum?” Speaking from his experience in intelligence and analysis, Glenn delivers a sobering assessment of US President Donald… Continue reading FO° Talks: Donald Trump 2.0: Are Lunatics Now Running the Asylum? The post FO° Talks: Donald Tru...| Fair Observer
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $2930 from 27 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me some support (it’s tax-deductible). Thank you so much! – Tom Dear friends, I recently had a fascinating conversation with Anthropic’s generative AI Claude (Sonnet-4 version). The full transcript (if you’re interested) can be found …| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
In FY 2024, over 200,000 Freedom of Information Act requests were backlogged, according to the Government Accountability Office.| Reason.com
He seems to have the most essential virtues, and perhaps the corresponding vices, demanded by the present crisis.| The American Mind
The Certificado de Empadronamiento is one of the most important Spanish documents and arguably the easiest to obtain. Here's how to get one.| Moving To Spain
by Inger Mewburn Recently, some colleagues and I released a paper about the experiences of neurodivergent PhD students. It’s a systematic review of the literature to date, which is currently …| SRHE Blog
Everyone hates bureaucracy – especially the right. The second Trump administration has declared war on the federal bureaucracy with a renewed animus, establishing the Department of Government Efficiency to ostensibly root out wastefulness. On its surface, DOGE is a good idea. It is necessary, and should inspire broad sympathies from the American public. When people [...] The post In Defense of Bureaucracy first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
Either America will be guided by constitutionalism or by the historicist understandings of the revolutionary Left.| The American Mind
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?” Martin Luther King, Jr. posed that question […]| Broad + Liberty
Find out how to get an NIE number for Spain, why you need it, and the steps to apply. An essential read for expats to live and work legally in Spain.| Moving To Spain
Myths are powerful things — so powerful that one has been endorsed by the Supreme Court and now has the federal government by the throat. Its effects will be far-reaching and, at times, disastrous…| White House Chronicle
Are we are own worst enemy? The post Reusable KYC: when a dedication to decentralization self-sabotages appeared first on Philip Sheldrake.| Philip Sheldrake
Are we our own worst enemy?| Generative Identity
Bush II was actually the disastrous presidency that current liberals claim that Trump is. The enormity of the Iraq War fiasco alone boggles the mind. The trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, and the social trust that was wasted and stolen by that lie. Trillions and trillions of dollars were pissed away; they could have paved the streets in gold here with all that; free college or free meds for every fat Boomer smoking cigs in an Indian casino, border wall too, I don’t know,...| Tanner Hauser
Throughout The Double Golyadakin gets himself into trouble because he’s never sure how to express himself in public—outside his own head, or outside his own internal monologue. He doesn’t know how to present himself socially—or, in a contemporary phrasing, he doesn’t know which self to present, struggling as he is with a decaying class system, stagnant bureaucracy, Godlessness, materialism, precarity, and dread—all of which have rendered him incapable of appropriate behavior, or e...| Tanner Hauser
From my travels and conversations with americans I suspect most of your countrymen do not realize how poor the actual living conditions of the middle class are in America. In Spain an employed engineer in his early 40s with 15 years experience might make about 40k/year, wich is probably half, or a third, of what his american counterpart makes, yet the spaniard enjoys a much better quality of living. This is true for a 1 1/2st world nation like Spain, but it is much truer in 2nd world nations ...| Tanner Hauser
Covering systems thinking and context, agency, hard borders, trust, trust triangles, and governance.| Generative Identity
Questa settimana ho deciso di attivare lo SPID (Sistema Pubblico di Identità Digitale).| Michele Bologna