Benjamin Boyce Reaches the Same Conclusion

Benjamin Boyce, Evergreen alum who has been chronicling the college’s trials and tribulations, examines current events through the lens of an Evergreen public statement.

The last five minutes (linked to appropriate time below) arrives at the same conclusion found in my previous post – that the January 6 riot is being used as an excuse […]

Welcome to Cyberpunk

When I wrote ‘The Atlantic Looks Forward to Americas Next Great Authoritarian‘ I did not know that Glenn Greenwald would shortly write a very similar article. He too considered Trump’s supposed legacy as an authoritarian and found the evidence wanting on much the same grounds as I did. He too followed up this initial ‘legacy’ […]

The Atlantic Looks Forward to America’s Next Authoritarian

This post is a discussion on and response to Tufekci’s “America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent”.

I said four almost exactly four years ago that it wasn’t Trump people needed to worry about but what came after. On this Tufekci and I agree – but not much more. I shall begin with a […]

The Last Word Part 6 – Legacy

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The Last Word Part 3 – The Last Jedi

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Index – The Last Word on The Last Jedi

I am so late to this party that the hot new thing is complaining about a completely different Star Wars film: “Solo”. However, being late has never stopped me from having an opinion before, and the The Last Jedi is worth examining, both on its own merits and for the internet firestorm that it triggered.

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