How Rewriting History Rewrites You. I. PREAMBLE Some time ago, I found myself, on the Wiki site for noted terrible musical Hamilton. I can’t remember how I ended up there, but there I was. I navigated to the page for the Democratic-Republican party and found that they had been listed as…

How ought a man live, and why? I. PHILOSOPHY AND THE STRUCTURE OF CIVILIZATION It is oft said that politics is downstream of culture. While this is certainly true, it also doesn’t tell the entire story. Because culture doesn’t just spawn into existence and it is certainly not an end unto…

The KONE Aggregation Model’s 2022 Projections As the Midterms drift closer, I will be updating this story with current forecasts from my own aggregation model. After the Primaries wrap up, I will have ratings for individual races as well as ratings on the environment at large. Beginning with Presidential Job…

Jekyll, Hyde, and the Reluctant Acceptance of the Inevitability of Trump 2024 Donald J. Trump will be President of the United States in 2025. In the midst of almost daily blunders from a deteriorating President Biden and his incompetent Administration, disapproval numbers climbing towards 60% with no signs of stopping…

The Death of Federalism and It’s Consequences — I. A BRIEF HISTORICAL PRIMER The First Progressive Era, it could be easily argued, is the point at the peak of the slippery slope the United States now finds itself at the bottom of. From the exit of the highly underrated Grover Cleveland in 1897 to the election and ascension…