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World Edition - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com
The best short piece I've read on Trump's new Predator America- Brilliant and crucially important @FT editorial
America has turned on its friends - https://t.co/pVsC3aoObN via @FT https://t.co/oFU2d0gZgc
The End of The Beginning
aitkenadvisors.com
In a controversial speech by Lee Kuan Yew who served as the Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 – 1990, he has a really great line about conviction:
“I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind, an inability to chart a course. Whichever way the wind blows. Whichever way... See more
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netI usually love @RayDalio but I think this is completely wrong.
1) The change in economic policy is to incentive more free market competition in industrial focus areas and remove sprawling bureaucracy that impedes effective decision making, otherwise we cannot build infrastructure... See more
Andrew Côtéx.comto participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of
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