It's one of my favorite phrases: "Mistakes have been made." They are legion. I've made most of them myself. I continue along the same, error-ridden path. I suspect I'll make my final mistake immediately before I die. It might be…
On 4 September 2008, as the final academic year of my academic life was barely under way, I wrote an essay for this space bearing the same title as the current essay. It's pasted below, verbatim, after a few contemporary…
by Tim Buchanan CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of violence The converging crises that are descending on our planet are the direct responsibility of the powerful who preside over civilization today. The political and economic elite of yesteryear would not have known…
I've pasted directly below, nearly verbatim, an essay I wrote for this space on 8 May 2014 titled, "Shadows and Lies" (I updated the original essay on 11 September 2015 with a link to the latest report from Architects &…
Suppose we were planning to impose a dictatorial regime upon the American people -- the following preparations would be essential: 1. Concentrate the populace in megalopolitan masses so that they can be kept under close surveillance and where, in case…
Sun Tzu discussed resources as imperative to state power about 2,500 years ago in The Art of War. By the time Thomas Hobbes linked resources and anthropocentrism in his 1651 classic, Leviathan, resources were clearly accepted as human rights. Consider,…
I entered the sixth stage of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' five stages of grief about a year ago. I spend much of my time in this stage, identified by me as gallows humor. In the spirit of personal growth, I'm moving on.…