Friends in Europe,
In May 2025, I will reunite with Belgian musicians Dijf Sanders, Simon Segers, and Louise van den Heuvel for a second season of the House of Wu Fei, on a European tour organized by Ha Concerts. House of Wu Fei debuted in of Gent, Belgium in 2024.
This tour is supported by the Europe Jazz Network Green Pilot Tour.
These ar…
What a nutty day in Augusta. But he did it!
Hard to stay ahead of the news, but I’m attempting a relatively deep dive under the circumstances. Today's newsletter is about the four factions of Trump's 2nd term and how they're producing chaos on tariffs:
1. The Chief Executive
2. MAGA 2.0
3. The Tech Right
4. The hollowed shell of the Republican establishment
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"Systems" are designed by people. People are imperfect. Therefore, any system designed by people will be imperfect. It then follows that something that is inherently imperfect, while useful, should never be imbued with unlimited power.
That is, IMO, the genius of the founding documents of the US. They realized government is essential, but the government will devolve to naked imposition of power if not constrained.
People on the right know that mankind will not/cannot be perfect, and prefer …
This was really nicely put, and I’m going to appropriate it to use in my own arguments, hope you don’t mind. I’m on the left, and I’m definitely not alone in agreeing with this sentiment - wish you wouldn’t paint us all with the same broad brush. There are many of us who do not align with the illiberalism of the activist far left. (If that’s the right term - I’m not sure how to label anything anymore, including myself!) _____________________
"Systems" are designed by people. People are imperfect…
I am what would be described as an almost classic liberal; I call myself a JFK Democrat. I differentiate between liberals, which you seem to be, and leftists that seem to dominate the Democrat party these days. "The left" in the US these days is decidedly illiberal, and probably fascist, IMO.
You think the typical Democrat is a fascist? Nancy Pelosi? Joe Biden? Barack Obama? What on Earth is your definition of a fascist?
