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“The Tenacity of Hope”
The tenacity of hope! A magnificent phrase I learned from an editorial in The Guardian and which was inspired by the theme of the Catholic Church’s latest Jubilee year, hope. It is a phrase worth pondering. As embedded as hope may be in the human psyche, the depth of its meaning can only be reached…
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Kakistocracy
Increasing one’s vocabulary is always a good thing. And I learned the word kakistocracy quite recently while reading Paul Krugman’s last column for the New York Times. It means government by the worst. In Krugman’s case he was being predictive. I think there’s a deeper way to think of the word: What do we mean…
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Yes, Democracy Is Messy
It’s easy to say Democracy is messy, but what do we mean? I can only speak for my understanding as to why. Citizens are like the pieces of a mosaic, all equal but not all the same. We each have one vote, but the ignorant has the same vote as the learned, the one with…
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