Category: SurrealPolitiks

Well, I started with a plan to talk about economics, and we got to that, but given the news I had to open with my thoughts on this Tucker Carlson situation. On another venue, I went on at some length about Tucker Carlson’s contribution to American politics. I do not believe it can be overstated […]

In the practice of Realpolitik, it is typically considered ill advised to go out of one’s way to antagonize the greatest possible number of political participants with one’s speech. Today we break that rule with our episode title “Misesian Socialism”. The phrasing derives from the name of one Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian economist of […]

We live in, interesting times, as goes the curse. Toward the end of Monday’s public show, a caller brought up recent indictments in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a Soros backed prosecutor has fulfilled his campaign promise by bringing meritless charges against attendees of a 6 year old political demonstration, which was coordinated with law enforcement. […]

There has been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence lately in the news, and I’ve been struggling to get caught up with how dramatically technology has changed in the last three years.  One might expect the pace of change to only increase from here, and as much as I share the concerns of Elon […]

The Wednesday night SurrealPolitiks members only video chats have been a lot of fun so far. I have appreciated the audience interactions, and, not without consequence, that interaction has saved me the trouble of needing to do much show prep. 🙂 The more you talk, the less I have to, as I’m fond of saying. […]

There’s an old saying that two men can keep a secret, if one of them is dead. Which means Washington is going to have a lot of very morbid work to do, if it wants to clean up its intelligence messes. Over a million people in the United States have “Top Secret” security clearances. While […]

There’s some weeks when you don’t know what to say, and others when you don’t know where to start. Today begins the latter sort. Happy Monday… I chose the episode title “Way Down We Go” because I like a song by that name, from a band called Kaleo. I’m not going to play it, because […]

We would like to  begin by thanking those of you who became SurrealPolitiks members right away, even when there was not much in the way of benefits to this. Your support means the world to us, and as we have worked to produce content for the general public, we have also quietly been working on […]

What is political power? One way to think about it, is as the capacity to alter the behavior of others. In this sense, the formal acquisition of such power, as in the assignment to a position within the government, or political party, is merely the acknowledgement of a previously existing state of affairs. One obtains […]

Tonight at 8:00pm Eastern we will do our first live airing of the SurrealPolitiks Podcast! Stage One, Episode 2 (S01E002) is titled “Choice Architect” and the opening monologue will feature a short review of “Nudge” by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. You can watch live video on our Entropy Page, and chat with other listeners, […]