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Are We Seeing a Political Realignment?
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
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On Europe’s Inner Asian frontier, demographic expansion long seemed as hobbled as it was in mainland North America until the 1750s.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml
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America, China, and the Death of the International Monetary Non-System - American Affairs Journal
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In their eyes, reform was entirely enlightened policy, and in advocating it, they repeatedly invoked the rhetoric of "freedom," "modernity," and "liberty."
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Assuming Weber’s central insight to have been correct, then in the face of the dramatic transformation in the forms of contemporary capitalism, some new ethos ought to be unfolding right before our eyes.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
United States especially, policy-makersexplicitly discouraged them from cultivating Western-type desires.