My interest in conflict and war goes back decades. In 1961, the film Failsafe starring Henry Fonda as the U.S. president presented a dire warning about the nuclear arms race taking off. It revealed our vulnerability: human error, miscommunication, and technological failure. The tragic ending was shocking. Film director Kathryn Bigelow’s new A House of Dynamite is equally gripping, demonstrating to viewers the reality of our modern world, our closeness to global destruction. Failsafe was alarming. House of Dynamite is foreshadowing.
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When we think of power, the word itself commands that we carve the concept into something isolated and wieldable: a sword, a gun, a scepter. Power means power over. There is no basic concept of power – no word for power in the English language – that also means collaboration, collective participation: people working together, individually empowered at the same time that they are part of a larger whole.
The first “massage” was only the beginning. In the years after, Lisa’s relationship with Epstein grew into something far more intricate than a predator and prey. She visited his Manhattan mansion. She went to his office. Some sessions were professional, other times not. Sometimes they talked for hours. Other times, she knew it would end in abuse. But the environment never felt entirely hostile: he maintained the guise of mentorship.
Pedophiles are not merely criminals — they are predators who study weakness the way a sniper studies distance. They groom, manipulate, and target innocent young girls, then coerce their silence. Jeffrey Epstein perfected this evil. With obscene wealth, private islands, and the veneer of sophistication, he constructed a pipeline of teenage girls. Then he surrounded himself with powerful men whose presence transformed them into accomplices and human shields. His crimes were deliberate, organized, and camouflaged by luxury and influence.
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The Government Shutdown And The Collateral Damage It Caused.
Alright, friends — lace up your sensible shoes because we’re strolling into a field that’s been plowed, planted, and harvested by venture capital, political ambition, and some very high-powered alliances. And at the center of it sits a pairing that should make every farmer, every rural community, and every American paying attention to land ownership perk up: J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel.
America at 250: It’s Time to Bring the Ballot Home
Demagoguery is nothing new. America has always had its fire-breathers, Father Charles Coughlin, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Governor George Wallace, each exploiting fear and resentment to build a following. But today’s demagogues operate at a scale those predecessors could never imagine. They don’t need studios or rallies; they have livestreams, podcasts, and algorithmic megaphones engineered to reward outrage. They arrive faster, louder, and more frequently, wrapped in hashtags and monetized resentment.
First and most important: “Take care that you are not made into a Caesar, that you are not dyed with this purple dye; for such things happen. Keep yourself rather simple, good, pure, serious from affectation, a friend of justice, a worshipper of the gods, kind, affectionate, strenuous in all proper acts. … help people. Life is short.” (The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, VI, ¶ 30); below “MMA”.)