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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
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Paul Romer
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defenders of “God's chosen country,”
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
Both Napoleon and George W. Bush fell victim to the alignment problem. Their short-term military goals were misaligned with their countries’ long-term geopolitical goals. We can understand the whole of Clausewitz’s On War as a warning that “maximizing victory” is as shortsighted a goal as “maximizing user engagement.” According to the Clausewitzian
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
In wartime, a company is fending off an imminent existential threat. Such a threat can come from a wide range of sources, including competition, dramatic macroeconomic change, market change, supply chain change, and so forth. The great wartime CEO Andy Grove marvelously describes the forces that can take a company from peacetime to wartime in his b
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Aubrey Woolls-Sampson.
Max Boot • Invisible Armies
nation is defined by its inherent virtue rather than by its future potential, politics becomes a discussion of good and evil rather than a discussion of possible solutions to real problems.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Jan Christiaan Smuts,
Max Boot • Invisible Armies
Yet when it comes to the great captains of irregular warfare, the same can hardly be said. While there are many accounts of daring commando raids, and more thoughtful works that explore the complex relationships between elite military advisors and friendly indigenous fighters, there is precious little study of the principles that might be distilled
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