You have a great sense of humor.

Orwellian.

Yes, it’s old, but the hunger is there among my own students (very far from the Ivy League) for what has been denied to them. I think our circumstances make what we used to do very radical indeed. I agree we should do more and differently, but also need to stop compromising what the humanities are.

This is called, brand recognition. The Liberal’s brand is very well recognised by the public.

Sadly, yes.

The news in brief(s).

A more potent reason is that those of us who live outside the US are nonetheless shackled to it. We live within the US imperium, and it’s that that poses the threat of fascist infection.

Gold! I’d like to advocate for its inclusion (with full attribution of course) in every class we teach in the Humanities at my university in Australia.

I don’t think it does. One may have polity without a state. Renaissance republics and Greek city states were polities, but were not states. The state is a particular and fairly recent historical formation, whereas polities seem ubiquitous in the human record.

These are people who’ve lived their entire lives in servitude to paymasters. They cannot survive except under the golden showers the rich, powerful, entitled, and privileged precipitate upon them. Their minds have atrophied, their consciences shrivelled. They are emptied, vitiated husks of life.

We should not confuse authority with power. Authority is a quality one recognises or withholds. Power does not care. In the same way, we should not confuse government with the state. Anarchists, it seems to me, were proponents for government (of various sorts) without the state (in any form).

I don’t ever recall an instance of a stand over merchant lauding their “transparency” as an benefit of accepting their protection racket.