It will shock no one for me to say that the modern American family is an institution in crisis1. There will be no shortage of finger pointing as to what (or who) is to blame for that. Most of that finger pointing will be at someone's favorite bogeyman, and will...
Sure we got rid of the powdered dandies, but what did we gain (in terms of an elite)? And whatever we did gain, what in the hell happened to it?
I've been doing a lot of reading of material written late in the Depression as part of my research on bureaucracy (partially explored over on my substack). A late entry in that effort was Joseph Schumpeter's work of the same title as this post. I picked this up...
Smart people know to worry when things get quiet.
The frustration…
The playing field expands.
An isolated incident, aftermath.
An isolated incident continues.
A series, partially inspired by The Spark, and partially ripped from the headlines and a few obscure sources, as well as the corrector totius orientis himself, Septimius Odaenathus.
All y’all are revolting!
A good read inspires a bit of writing on a subject of longstanding interest – the long shadows cast by Mssrs. Jefferson and Hamilton.