August 2026 Update/Author’s Notes: In 2022, I posted this on my website. I posed a question that intrigued me then and is even more relevant now – was the January 6th insurrection analogous to Germany’s experience with the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (unsuccessful, but laid the groundwork for political success), or to the 1933 ReichstagContinue reading “History Repeating Itself or Recurring History Denied?”
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U.S. Political Reality? A Satirical Discursive Parable
We have been talking for hours and this is what I understand from our discussion. Your life has been less than successful. You have tried many different jobs and even started your own business without the success you think you deserve. Your sense of what you deserve – your entitlement – is inbred, reinforced throughoutContinue reading “U.S. Political Reality? A Satirical Discursive Parable”
A Third Reconstruction? Not Without Learning From The First Two –
There have been numerous calls over the past year or so for what is being called a Third Reconstruction. Fair enough. However, what happened in the first two? Since there are calls for a third, that suggests that the others failed. Why and how did the other two fail? And what is a “reconstruction” anyway? Continue reading “A Third Reconstruction? Not Without Learning From The First Two –”