The headlines today are dominated by the grim arithmetic of loss: eight lives extinguished in a charter plane crash near Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska.
The sheer spectacle of Alaska’s gubernatorial race—seventeen names vying for a single executive chair—is not merely chaotic; it is an economic inefficiency writ large.
The current political theater—a sprawling series of primary elections across 34 Senate seats—is less an election cycle and more a performance designed to obscure a fundamental…