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Joseph Natoli

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The Zeitgeist of Mad Logic

“The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the...

01.08.2025 10

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Joseph Natoli

The Game is On

“We’re flooded in shit, and we’re still searching for a way to shovel it out,” – James Carville While we are angst full over whether or not...

12.06.2025 10

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Joseph Natoli

Calling on Don Corleone

How did President Trump get Big Pharma to “equalize” their prices with the EU’s? Statement One: “I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED...

16.05.2025 3

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Good Guys/Bad Guys

We are in an intensely good guys/bad guys cultural mindset. I describe it as a cultural imaginary because how we see our enemies is more of how we...

25.02.2025 10

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Ignorant and Free Doesn’t Work

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1816...

31.01.2025 30

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Joseph Natoli

What Can He Do?

“The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; Around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.” –...

10.01.2025 5

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Who Gets Burnt in the Politics of Passion?

A key question here is whether the destruction that Trump will rain on wage earners, while at the same time nurturing dividend recipients, will...

13.12.2024 5

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Joseph Natoli

Get the Hell Out of My Way

Right now, a multi-billionaire regime is being set up by electing just one man, and this done by popular vote, by those Rand would call masses of...

29.11.2024 10

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Atavism in the American Mass Psyche

Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 was a surprise, I conjecture, to Trump himself. I think he was surprised earlier in the Primaries how easy it was to...

13.09.2024 2

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Joseph Natoli