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History often remembers the 1962 coup as an unexpected seizure of power by a power-hungry General. However, the military’s current denial to depart the politics and their evolution into an elite “crony” class from the military bureaucratic class are rooted in the seven-decade growth of their bureaucratic power and economic interests, which began in the…
The Ethics of Limit
by Tommaso Biagi Independent scholar of moral and political philosophy “I do not rule you, and you do not rule me.” ⸻ The Quiet Contradiction of Every Civilization Every civilization—flawless, perfect in composition and intention—exists atop a quiet contradiction: We love freedom. We suffer domination. We justify it as “necessary authority,” “the public order,” “the…
Book Review: Red Moon
I had Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon on my Goodreads to-read list for a long time, mainly because I’m a fan of his other work and the title sounded evocative. But I put off reading it time and again because the Goodreads summary didn’t give much indication of how much systemic transition figured in the…
Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate
. . . With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The…
