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The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.

Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

Democrats’ Shutdown Dilemma and the End of Politics

Nick Catoggio thedispatch.com

The Art of Research

Nina Bell • 5 cards

Quack This Way

David Foster Wallace

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Dynamic address.

Douglas Jacobson • Introduction to Network Security (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series Book 19)

Public markets reward predictability.

Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist

This is the story of a rather unorthodox department known as M.D.1. (Ministry of Defence 1). Born at the War Office early in 1939 with a staff of one commissioned and one non-commissioned officer charged with the task of devising special weapons for irregular warfare, it rapidly grew up into an establishment equipped to design and develop new weapo

Stuart Macrae • Winston Churchill's Toyshop

But analysts in the Navy’s official think tank came up with a new strategic idea: finite deterrence . All the U.S. needed, they argued, was enough nuclear weapons to destroy the 100 largest cities in the Soviet Union; this could be done with a mere 640 mis -siles in 40 submarines

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

The Senate’s victory over the Treaty of Versailles proved again that the powers given that body by the Founding Fathers were strong enough to stand against the power of the executive and the power of public opinion—strong enough to stand, if necessary, against both at once. “Ultimately,” as Burns has written, “Wilson’s League was not killed by him,