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Among the ancestors Note to Substack readers. I replicate the essays that I publish on my chrissmaje.com site here on Substack. I’ve switched comments off here because I don’t want to juggle two parallel conversation threads, but if you’d like to discuss...

Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution “Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference … The Thought Police would get him just the same … the arrests invariably...

Israel’s strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other Reuters Israel says it will defend itself against Iran – but its allies want to avoid a wider Middle East war Israel’s attack on Iran was not the fierce response...

A WORLD AT WAR (AGAIN) World War III has already begun, and not much can stop it. That is an unpopular statement, for several reasons. Chief among them is the denial people are afflicted with when it comes to considering uncomfortable truths. But no...

California cracks down on water pumping: ‘The ground is collapsing’ Farm region near Tulare Lake has been put on ‘probation’ as overpumping of water has caused faster sinking of ground Even after two back-to-back wet years, California’s water wars...