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The Straussian Moment
gwern.netAny concept of justice that hopes to win broad support in the real world has to be political in these three ways: to be narrow in scope; to be free-standing of any comprehensive moral doctrine; and to be grounded in widely shared ideas drawn from the public political culture. The original position ensures that Rawls’s principles possess these featu
... See moreDaniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
His strategy of humility was composed of four elements: accepting the consequences of defeat; regaining the confidence of the victors; building a democratic society; and creating a European federation that would transcend the historic divisions of Europe.
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
cold-blooded need for control.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide


Clausewitz himself proposed that war could best be compared with commerce, since both are social conflicts of human interests and activities.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Can there be a connection between online universities and the serial insurgencies which, in media noise and human blood, have rocked the Arab Middle East? I contend that there is.