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Comments: Policy Practice and Theory:
Including 12/1/19 commentary 3/1/19 ←PORT NOTE(2) 9/1/08 7/1/18 9/1/18 12/1/18
1/1/19 2/1/19
5/1/19 N.B.→ 6/1/19 9/1/19
Comment
After benefiting from Russian help in the 2016 election,
President Trump corruptly sought
Ukrainian help to find political dirt on Joe Biden. We are lucky that there are
people in the government who believe in the rule of law rather than in the rule
of Trump. To quote a British M.P., “Where the law ends, tyranny begins.”
The 10/4/19 Washington Post later notes,
“…the record shows that Mr. Trump and his retainers kept raising their demands
(of Ukraine), like a casino developer squeezing a plumbing contractor.”
Many of his supporters retort to
the increasing stream of revelations, “Not true”, “Fake News.” We hope they
will not remain impervious to the truth, because on that depends the real
solutions to our real world challenges. Even more
important, democratic societies cannot survive without, “acceptance of a common
set of experiences.” Truth, former
ambassador James Melville says, is the fundamental way the West governs.* “If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re
unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in
power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those
in power work for us.”**
* This is the goal of its legal processes. ** Carl Sagan,
“The Demon-Haunted World”, 1995.
We think these are the most relevant
articles concerning the effects of rapid change and market volatility upon
societies:
1. Whats New: U.S. Democracy and Global Warming
2. The Feasibility of Renewable Energy
3. The Dimensions of Climate Change Footnote 7
4. What to Do (rev.)
Testing The Reasons, Footnote 12a
5. Climate Change and the Economy Additional Comment +
6. Adam Smith and the Modern World n.b.
7. Values
and Society n.b. Footnote 17
8. How
Liberal Societies Decide
Addenda (i-v)
9. The
Contours of Change n.b.
10. The
Limitations of Very Limited Government
11. Reason, Economic Growth and Government
12. Reason in the Modern World
13. The Necessity of Social Consensus
14. The Effect of Broad Economic Forces on U.S. Workers
15. The Effects of
Automation on Work and Politics
16. Modern Economics and Growth
17.The French Revolution of 1789 and the Precondition for Effective Change
18.The Nature of Stock Market Equilibrium
We hope these continuing discussions and
articles will be helpful to you.