For years, as we watched our republic deteriorate, we could say, “Well, at least we still have free speech.” Now we cannot say even that. To echo the bearded guy in robe and sandals who walks city streets with a placard in the old New Yorker cartoons: ‘The End Is Coming.”
Sunstein made a proposal – to infiltrate groups distrustful and suspicious of government’s motives – with no apparent cognition that infiltration is a go-to method for totalitarian or paranoid leaders who want to nip opposition before it grows.
I believe Sunstein and other public information gatekeepers see themselves acting in service to their country, to protect the republic from actual threats and pernicious influence of conspiracy crackpots.
George Will writes, “The strongest continuous thread in America’s political tradition is skepticism about government.” That means when government makes a claim, citizens respond with doubt.
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Shawn Hamilton published an interesting article titled Rethinking Conspiracy in the Foreign Policy Journal (October 27, 2014). Here is an excerpt: The terms “conspiracy …
Alright, Christmas is coming, so it’s time to take a look at Cass Sunstein’s argument, if you can call it …
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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ~ Thomas Jefferson Conspiracy theorists regard themselves …
I have a couple of things to say about David Ray Griffin’s work this afternoon. Then I have to get …
The Jeffersonian 