living in interregnum: the context and the coconut tree

j*e bid*n, the levers of power, letting elite gossip be elite gossip, gramsci, the work ahead

I file things like this in the “No” column of Evidence Of A Caring and Merciful God

“Interregnum was the term used in ancient Rome to refer to the moment of legal and political in-betweenness that followed the death of the sovereign…The ruling order had lost its capacity to lead through consent. The masses had drifted away from traditional ideologies and…