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David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
the last two decades the United States wasted trillions of dollars and much political capital on its War on Terror. George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and their administrations can argue with some justification that by hounding terrorists they forced them to think more about survival than about acquiring nuclear bombs. They might thereby hav
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The message of fear was all that remained.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
EXTENDING THE FOUNDING
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
“Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
George Packer • The Unwinding
“Who experts were—professional background, status, and so on—made scarcely an iota of difference,” Tetlock concludes. “Nor did what experts thought—whether they were liberals or conservatives, realists or institutionalists, optimists or pessimists.” But “[h]ow experts thought—their style of reasoning—did matter.” The critical variable turned out to
... See moreJohn Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
What is crazier: spending billions of dollars on a defense shield, or suggesting that we share our billions of dollars so we don’t need a defense shield?
Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
What won the war, for the Americans, was a Machiavellian insight: that a constitutional monarchy’s humiliation of an absolute monarchy could cause the latter, years later, to rescue a republican revolutionary upstart. Still bitter over France’s loss of North America to the British in 1763, Louis XVI welcomed rebel emissaries to Paris in 1776. The A
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