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Crowe began where Mackinder left off. Great Britain was an island off the coast of a continent, but with “vast overseas colonies and dependencies.”21 Its survival required the “preponderant sea power” it had long maintained. This had made it “the neighbour of every [other] country accessible by sea,” a status that could have provoked “jealousy and
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The historian Niall Ferguson has shown the importance of networks to key historical events like the American Revolution, the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.
Henry Oliver • Second Act
It was Arendt who showed me that Augustine was a cartographer of the heart.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
Space is where expectations and circumstances intersect. Lincoln and Adams both saw, in westward expansion, the power to secure liberty, but they also feared its dangers.
John Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
BOUNDARIES ARE A SOURCE OF LIBERATION
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
undertaking frequently lacking a center from which it can be understood.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond
he is a writer shrewd enough to know that betrayal only matters because something else matters more.