history – I Dwell In Possibility

Origins of Economic Alienation and the Threat to Freedom

Timothy Snyder in his latest book On Freedom asserts that freedom must start with being free to do and not with freedom from. He describes the former as positive freedom and the latter as negative freedom. We can identify who’s who by this simple shibboleth. Those who come at us with freedom from regulation, forContinue reading “Origins of Economic Alienation and the Threat to Freedom”

Star Trek: Reflections on Sci Fi Notions of Time Part IV Point 6

If the South Had Won the Civil War is a book by MacKinlay Kantor, a work of “speculative fiction” rather than science fiction. The premise hinges on a cat startling Ulysses S. Grant’s horse prior to his ascendancy to top general. If you want to get into the historical weeds, prior to Vicksburg. The horseContinue reading “Star Trek: Reflections on Sci Fi Notions of Time Part IV Point 6”