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The first cycle created the federal government, the second redefined the relationship of the federal government to the states, the third cycle redefined the federal government’s relation to the economy and society, and the fourth cycle will redefine the relationship of the federal government to itself.

An endangered key result triggers action to get it back on track, or to revise or replace it if warranted.

En 1914, les élites de Washington, Londres et Berlin savaient donc exactement à quoi ressemblait une guerre victorieuse et les gains qu’on pouvait en tirer. En 2018, en revanche, les élites mondiales ont de bonnes raisons de soupçonner que ce type de guerre pourrait bien appartenir au passé. Même si certains dictateurs du tiers monde et acteurs non

The proposed Constitution “forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular to the State legislatures.”67 Madison thus deployed scale across space to reverse time: history would henceforth strengthen his republic by allowing factions to compete at all levels, so th

If Congress and the president decided to lay out a real (and credible) plan to reduce the deficit over time, say five or six years, to where it was less than nominal GDP, the bond market would (we think) behave. Reducing deficits by $150 billion a year through a combination of cuts in growth and spending would get us there in five years.

Although as a doctoral student Kissinger had immersed himself in the diplomatic history of early-nineteenth-century Europe, he was keenly aware throughout his career that the eternal patterns of great-power politics were subject to periodic disruption by technological change.

By enlarging Old Europe into a new Euro-Atlantic ‘world’, the Occidentals had acquired hinterlands as varied and extensive as those of the Islamic realm or East Asia. There was much less evidence in the later early modern age that this great enlargement in territorial scale would also bring about the internal transformation to which Europe’s subseq

Once America begins to enter the Ekpyrosis phases of the Millennial Crisis, perhaps sometime in the late 2020s, it will try to mobilize all available resources in order to meet extraordinary national or even global challenges. At this point, nothing like a financial crash can happen: By necessity, an expansive (and expensive) public agenda will ten

Consensus academics articulated the need for tough men of will in politics, using prose laden with metaphors of sexual prowess.