Nomenklatura– In the old Soviet Union, a group of managers and bureaucrats (some 1.5 percent of the population) engaged in ceaseless political maneuvering among themselves while maintaining total power, as…
Trump is a businessman, and he’s been too busy to think long and hard about politics. That’s one of the reasons he doesn’t get what he’s up against. Like a…
Trendy as hell to identify oneself as a supporter of Free Trade. (FT) Also trendy to disparage anyone who does not support it as some kind of extreme left authoritarian…
There are two basic political factions. One is the left. The other is the anti-left. The left wish to build fences, and the anti-left attempts to escape those fences, and…
Trump won the US election when everyone said he would not. This has given rise to a surfeit of theorizing on the whys and wherefores. I think many have missed…