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Stew on This

The Myth of the Adult in the Room

Why responsibility not restraint is what democracy actually demands.

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Steward Beckham
Mar 24, 2026
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I have been suffering from a minor case of writer’s block. Not because there isn’t anything to say, there is too much to say. Politics hums like a broken machine, history repeats its darker refrains, and the news cycle demands we relive it all in real time. It is not silence that stalls the writer, but the exhaustion …

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