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From the Straits to the Six: A Case for Michigan Secession and Annexation to Canada
by David Britten on February 22, 2025 at 12:14 pm
We hear about Texas and other “red states” discussing the idea of secession to form their own republic, or multiple republics. We seldom here about […]
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If George Orwell had known about today’s artificial intelligence…
by David Britten on February 14, 2025 at 4:19 pm
In a rather lengthy conversation this morning with OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o, something I do quite frequently as intellectual calisthenics, I was curious […]
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Watching the Game: How Media Frames Politics Like a Hockey Match
by David Britten on February 10, 2025 at 11:50 am
Reading all the various political news reports this morning, I had a flash of feeling like a spectator to the game of hockey. I think there is a strong analogy […]
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Hitler’s Oligarchy - History Has Echoes
by David Britten on February 7, 2025 at 10:28 am
Grab your coffee and peruse my summary of Timothy W. Ryback’s essay in the February Atlantic, “The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting […]
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How Generations Drive the Fourth Turnings
by David Britten on November 14, 2024 at 4:27 pm
“The Fourth Turning is Here,” but what does that mean? Neil Howe and the late William Strauss’s Fourth Turning theory suggests that […]
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Distract and Divide
by David Britten on October 8, 2024 at 4:10 pm
The following is based on my extensive reading and research on an issue that is rooted in history and becoming ever more concerning in today’s divisive […]