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The Z Man

The Z Man is a writer based in the US.

Zeitgeist

Who Is Freer These Days?

The Z Man

Those old enough to remember the Cold War will recall, perhaps with some prompting, that t...

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Deep Thoughts

Rise of the Absurd

The Z Man

The French Enlightenment philosopher known to us as Voltaire once said, “Whoever can mak...

Washington D.C.

District of Corruption

President in Name Only

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In AD 65, unrest spread throughout the Roman Empire, in response to the increasingly despo...

Red Square, Moscow

Zeitgeist

A Wilderness of Lies

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Way back in the before times, a regular feature of the media was the Kremlinologist, who w...

Pathetic Politicians

Governed by Geezers

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Last Thursday, President Joe Biden was allowed out of his protective bubble to deliver a n...

The Untold Story

The Politics of Smash and Grab

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The otherwise sterling reputation of Baltimore City took a hit last week when the local ne...

The Untold Story

Beyond Reparations

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For as long as anyone reading this has been alive, American politics have been a morality ...

Opinion

Watch Your Step

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Societal decline is best imagined as a drunk man falling down a long flight of stairs, may...

National Bankruptcy

The Impeachment Show

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Lost in the tedium and general lack of interest in the impeachment show put on by the Demo...

Conservatism

A Moral Battle

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For a long time, the underlying argument against the progressive social experiment was tha...

GOP

The Death of Civic Nationalism

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For as long as anyone can remember, to be a conservative meant embracing what is today kno...

Deep Thoughts

The New Regime

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If you were to round up a random collection of people and lock them up in a school gymnasi...

Apocalypse Now

After the Fall

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This week the ruling class will install Mumbly Joe Biden as the 46th President of the Unit...

Zeitgeist

From Reformers to Rebels

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For close to a generation now, realists have been warning about what happens when America ...

BLM

The Cycle of Racial Madness

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One of the interesting aspects to America’s obsession with race is the fact that the sal...

Deep Thoughts

Now What?

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By most accounts, 2020 was one of the most tumultuous years in living memory, so people ar...

Film and Society

It’s a Wonderful Movie

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A holiday semi-tradition in the United States is watching the classic Frank Capra film It�...

Deep Thoughts

Inside or Out?

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Most reform efforts, regardless of what is the target of reform, fail because the reformer...

Zeitgeist

Setting the Stage for Revolution

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One purpose of popular government is to solve some of the problems that come with more tra...

Zeitgeist

The Rise of Gyno-Fascism

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A dozen years ago, the neoconservative gadfly Jonah Goldberg wrote a book titled Liberal F...

Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton

Looking Back

Power of the Puritans

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This week is Thanksgiving in the United States, and it is also the 400th anniversary of th...

Zeitgeist

Keeping the Civic Religion Afloat

The Z Man

Montesquieu observed that every form of government has a unique principle that motivates t...

Contagion

The Church of COVID

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Pet Valu, the specialty retailer of pet food and supplies in the U.S., announced it was cl...

Elections

The Quest for Democracy

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In A Preface to Democratic Theory, political theorist Robert Dahl listed eight conditions ...

Deep Thoughts

The Myth of ‘Build Back Better’

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On the night of June 19, a fire broke out in some of the shops near the Circus Maximus in ...

The Untold Story

‘Truth’ Over Facts

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In his memoir, Banana Sunday, the late British newspaperman Christopher Munnion described ...

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