The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Progressive Technocratic Longhouse Test St Paul MN shall lead the way WILLIAM HUNTER DUNCAN It was an historic city council election in the capital city of Minnesota, St Paul, in 2023. All seven city council members are Millennial, progressive women, six off them racial minorities: one of Korean ancestry, another of Hmong, two black women, one Hindi adoptee and a mixed Iranian/Korean. The one white woman is quintessential Jewish female city liberal. Not one of them in their campaign websites touts any private economic experience. Every one of them describes themselves as an organizer. Every one appears to have worked their entire lives for governments or nonprofits. Every one of them talks about the importance of public safety but not one emphasizes law enforcement. St Paul is now every bit a test case of the technocratic, progressive “longhouse.” From left to right, Anika Bowie, Saura Jost, Mitra Jalali, Hwa Jeong Kim and Cheniqua Johnson posed after filing to run for the St. Pa...

Will the Scorpion Sting the U.S. Frog? ALASTAIR CROOKE Netanyahu is setting the stage for entrapment of the Biden Administration by manoeuvring so that the U.S. has little choice but to join with Israel. The allegory is one in which a scorpion depends on the frog for its passage across a flooded river, by hitching a lift on the frog’s back. The frog distrusts the scorpion; but reluctantly agrees. During the crossing the scorpion fatally stings the frog swimming the river, under the scorpion. They both die. It is a tale from antiquity intended to illustrate the nature of tragedy. A Greek tragedy is one in which the crisis at the heart of any ‘tragedy’ does not arise by sheer mischance. The Greek sense is that tragedy is where something happens because  it has to happen ; because of the nature of the participants; because the actors involved make it happen. And they have no choice but to make it happen, because that is their nature. It is a story that was  deployed  by a fo...