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Overall, instead of technology being privately owned and developed in secret by multiple competitors, we should aim to have more open protocols and decentralised services. Secret development makes sense for small entities working on technology not yet shown to be in the public interest, but once a form of technology is mature enough, there should b
... See moreWendy Liu • Abolish Silicon Valley
But in the case of Andrew Jackson it may be that I felt a special sense of individual isolation; for I believe that there are even fewer among Englishmen than among Americans who realise that the energy of that great man was largely directed towards saving us from the chief evil which destroys the nations to-day. He sought to cut down, as with a sw
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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Persuade Negroes that the Republican Party, rather than the Democratic, offered the best chance for justice for their race and the GOP might be able at last to get back the Negro vote. Get it back, and for years to come, even without an Eisenhower at the head of the ticket, it might be a Republican who occupied the White House. Get it back, and it
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
And Johnson had a strategy—and he knew how to use a strategy. The White Stars were told to concentrate on a single, simple point. “When we asked what we should tell people,” one recalls, “they told us that the campaign would have many slogans, but that there was only one slogan that mattered: ‘Roosevelt. Roosevelt. Roosevelt. One hundred percent fo
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
He was offended by someone campaigning on the ground that he could get more money—in the form of federal projects—for Texas. “The best job is going to be done for Texas in the United States Senate by sending there a man of individual courage, personal convictions and moral stamina to do what he believes is right.… Not political pull but personal in
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He regularly invited top computer scientists to his office to explain emerging trends in hardware and software. He had three home computers. He was typing a future bestseller, Earth in the Balance, on an early laptop. He went to computer-industry conferences, wrote articles for Scientific American, and fluently spoke the language of VLSI and AI, RA
... See moreMargaret O'Mara • The Code
By 2015 it was Donald Trump who had once again melded the combative Rothbardian style to Buchananite ideology. Trump did not simply defeat Jeb Bush; he humiliated him and his family on a personal level. Ditto Ted “Your father shot JFK” Cruz, and Marco “Google ‘gay rumors’” Rubio. Many in the thinking class assume Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing,
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