Ruminations on Everything

Ruminations on everything from international affairs and politics to quantum physics, cosmology and consciousness. More recently, notes on political theory.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Nothing wrong with capitalism, the capitalists are the problem

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In March 1964, a group including Linus Pauling, Gunnar Myrdal, Tom Hayden, Ben B. Seligmanm and computer pioneer Louis Fein sent a letter to...

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Three Things

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Thing One : As noted before , we now have front row seats to Trump’s attack on governing, the Constitution, his enemies, migran...

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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

The Long View

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R ecently, a friend challenged me to avoid hiding away from the current state of affairs through taking the long view , which is my default ...

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

Watching President Trump

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In my previous piece , I laid out what another Trump presidency might look like. In short, if he does what he said he would do during the ca...

Thursday, October 24, 2024

So what if Trumps wins?

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If Donald Trump wins the presidency on November 5, it will be the third time this century that a Republican has won with a mino...

Thursday, September 7, 2023

The Next 80 Years

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Just finished the first two books of William Gibson ’s latest planned trilogy: The Peripheral and Agency . Both are typically...

Saturday, July 15, 2023

The Human Conditon

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Yin: We are the stuff that dreams are made of. Puffs of air buffeted by the wind, fading into night. Yang: We orbit along the event horizon ...

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Gerard Gallucci: PhD in political theory from University of Pittsburgh. Served 25 years in the US Foreign Service, in Latin America and Africa, 1980-2005. Served as a UN peacekeeper (2005-10) in Kosovo and East Timor. Taught at the University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia Wesleyan College, George Washington University, Drake University and the Daniel Morgan Academy. Visit me at https://twitter.com/DBlue1103

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