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However, since the global financial crisis of 2008 people all over the world have become increasingly disillusioned with the liberal story. Walls and firewalls are back in vogue. Resistance to immigration and to trade agreements is mounting. Ostensibly democratic governments undermine the independence of the judiciary system, restrict the freedom

Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

🚨NEW: Victor Davis Hanson says Trump’s tariffs show he’s siding with working class — while Dems side with ultra-wealthy🚨 "This is a class thing. It really is ... I can't believe he did it ... he said, 'This Republican is going to choose the side of the working man. It's not going to choose Wall... See more

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HOW EMPIRES PERISH “At the opening of the twentieth century there were five great Western empires—the British, French, Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian—and two emerging great powers: Japan and the United States. By century’s end, all the empires had disappeared. How did they perish? By war—all of them.... See more

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Would we necessarily say that government, civic life, the media, or high finance work better now than in the mid-20th century? We can scorn the smug WASP blue bloods from Groton and Choate—and certainly their era’s retrograde views of race and gender—but their leadership helped produce the Progressive movement, the New Deal, victory in World War... See more

David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

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Pat Buchanan, Conan and the Death of the West “In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for... See more

Multipolar Press / Constantin von Hoffmeister

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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

Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)

The word “thumotic” here refers to Harvey Mansfield’s use of the Greek word “thumos” to mean a sort of political passion and drive. Francis Fukuyama spelled it “thymos”, and even predicted in 1992 that Donald Trump might be the perfect embodiment of Americans’ thymotic urge to tear down the liberal establishment.

Lyons thus sees Trumpism as a sort... See more

Noah Smith • This Thing Will Fail

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

Ava Kofman newyorker.com