Content 18+ My friend Eric recently suggested that I write a follow-up to my post, The Art of the Deal… With Reality, to explore the necessity of strong leadership in overcoming bureaucracy, stagnation, and even the inability to protect one’s interests. At the same time, he emphasized the importance of balance, arguing that current discourse leans too far in one direction. I found myself agreeing with his call for … Read the rest
Content 21+ Politics is a game of mirrors and shadows, where the same actions refract into either virtue or vice depending on the observer’s position. It is not merely bias but a feature of the system itself, a grand mechanism of shifting perception in which yesterday’s champions of truth become today’s architects of deception. Principles are not bedrock; they are liquid, poured into molds of convenience and reshaped with every … Read the rest
By Eric LeRoy
Content 18+ I have always wondered why some people make a powerful impression on us and others don’t. Of course the effect can vary from person to person, and that’s a good thing: for example, it would be a real mess if every man fell in love with the same woman – to the exclusion of all others.
Just imagine it: the longed-for Wench-Princess-Nymphette standing on the … Read the rest
Content 18+ Nations often look to their past with nostalgia, a powerful motivator that, though seemingly benign, can become a trap. The call to “make the nation great again” is one such lure, a phrase that is both alluring and profoundly loaded. Such calls can, paradoxically, contain the seeds of democratic erosion—an erosion which is all the more insidious because it is often achieved through democratic means.
Consider the example … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ There are a lot of ways to look at Donald Trump’s stunning victory, and perhaps even more ways not to. Among the latter are to demonize Trump and stomp one’s feet about ‘populism’ and start calling every Trump-supporter a nazi or fascist. But beyond the inevitable sour grapes and name calling, there is one error that leaps off the charts: pretending that Trump’s win … Read the rest
