Dear All, If I led you to think that I was done dealing with ‘reductions’, I must apologize. There is one that is typically American and a really ‘hot potato’ in an election year, but it must be addressed: the reduction of every public issue to a political issue.

Dear All, As you will have gathered, the reductionist style of thinking cannot help being a rabbit hole leading to absurdity. The world is altogether too complex and too fluid for a ‘one size fits all’ approach. So, you must be ready to understand that I have no intention of proposing a reductionist approach; so this will not be simple.

Dear All, If I led you to think that I was done dealing with ‘reductions’, I must apologize. There is one that is typically American and a really ‘hot potato’ in an election year, but it must be addressed: the reduction of every public issue to a political issue.

Dear All, As if fiscal reductionism and biological reductionism were altogether too confining, there has arisen in recent years a new reduction of humanity to pure will.