by Will Mayshall | Aug 19, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politcal Parties
The existential conflicts that drove us to war in 1860 are the same as the existential conflicts dividing us today. Slavery has been abolished, thankfully, but nothing else has changed. The conflict that divides us works itself out in various ways: an emotional...
by Will Mayshall | Aug 13, 2026 | Culture Wars, History as it applies to the Future, Politcal Parties, Politics
Take the average person! He or she could do the job! Proposed: Everybody says they want to get the politics out of Governance! So, why don’t we?!?! As a thought experiment, consider the last 10 presidents: Trump, Biden, Obama, G W Bush, Clinton, G H Bush, Reagan,...
by Will Mayshall | Jan 22, 2026 | Culture Wars, Politcal Parties, Politics
Nadine Gordimer, a South African, wrote a great story about Apartheid: “Once Upon a Time”. The residents in the story invest heavily in walling themselves off from any potential harm. They fail to see, until the end, that they are actually walling themselves in....
by Will Mayshall | Oct 23, 2025 | Culture Wars, Politcal Parties, Politics
Politics is too political! Proposed: New regulations severely limiting Congress’s power to hold hearings and a total ban on Congressional hearings that are meant to influence the outcome of an election. If the DNC and the RNC are so determined to assert their...
by Will Mayshall | Aug 24, 2025 | Culture Wars, Politcal Parties, Politics
Recommendations for Buckley by Sam Tanenhaus, a biography. You will learn a lot about who the man was. The why of the man requires some extrapolation from the facts. The most relevant facts are these: Bill Buckley, Jr. grew up in his father’s household. Bill Buckley...
by Will Mayshall | Aug 19, 2025 | Culture Wars, Politcal Parties, Politics
It has been said we are in a “pre-paradigmatic moment.” A time of deep flux, where the foundations of shared understanding that have held true for decades, centuries, or even longer have become unsettled. And we are on the verge of some mind-boggling societal changes...
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