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Trump’s Road to Modern Serfdom: The “Right” Voters. The “Right Leaders

If conservatives accept President Donald Trump’s agenda to dismantle our republic’s laws and principles, they could go down The Road to Serfdom, as Friedrich A. Hayek’s book title suggests. 

New Mayor Katie Wilson’s State of the City: “Hope” and Patience

Wilson’s speech spent much time describing challenges, less so on solutions. She is going slow, emphasizing “hope” as a mantra and a long-term strategy.

American Catholics: Standing up to Caesar

The Catholic Church refuses to look the other way in the face of Trump’s roundups of emigrees and refugees, despite justifications from Vice President J.D. Vance, a Catholic convert.

The Middleware Manifesto: Reconnecting America’s Civic Center

Here's the paradox: the current political assault on institutions may be the best thing that ever happened to the case for rebuilding them.

Going Back to the Hippie Trail

Rick Steves’ presentation in Edmonds was about his new book, "On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer." The book is an edited version of his journals of 1978, when he set out with his friend Gene Openshaw to travel the Trail through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India to the fabled city of Kathmandu, Nepal.

All that’s Left

I was not very good at spelling, until I discovered that if I spelled the word backward, as well as forward, I would have it perfectly.