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Weekly Tip 11: Tribalism vs. Self-Interest Rightly Understood

November 13, 2018 / trese / Where Conservatives Misstep, Where Liberals Misstep

I’m a moral philosopher, cut from similar cloth with First Economist Adam Smith, to use a maxim from long ago. Smith might have saluted French President Emmanuel Macron at the 100th commemoration of the armistice ending World War I. Nationalism is betrayal of patriotism, said Macron in stern rebuke to the tribalism of President Donald […]

Weekly Tip 08: The Gaming of America

October 26, 2018 / trese / Where Conservatives Misstep, Where Liberals Misstep

Americans are being gamed. We are gaming one another. Hyper-partisanship will not stop, cannot be ended unless gaming ends. MBA’s are trained to game. There are win-win games in which participants collaborate to expand payouts available to all players. American politics has become something quite different from a game of win-win, however. Our entrenched tribalism […]

Weekly Tip 06: Liberals – Message to the Left, Then Compromise Toward the Center, October 14, 2018

October 15, 2018 / trese / Role of Government, Where Conservatives Misstep, Where Liberals Misstep

Opinion columnist Thomas Friedman laments a recent comment from a friend. What’s going on in America today, observes the retired Marine colonel, is far more grave than any external threat, including the Soviet Union. And this, says the friend, is because the threat we face is here and now, right at home, and coming from […]

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