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March 12, 2025

The Ambivalence of Hu Qiaomu

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From China’s Good War (Rana Mitter, 2020) pp70

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March 11, 2025

A strange mixture of different political ideologies

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From China’s Good War (Rana Mitter, 2020) pp38-42

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March 10, 2025

Existential questions about the very nature of nationhood

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From The Power Worshippers (Katherine Stewart, 2019) pp266-70

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March 5, 2025

The political dangers of self-aggrandizement

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From China’s Galaxy Empire (John Keane & Baogang He, 2024) pp116-20

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March 1, 2025

The global holy war comes of age

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From The Power Worshippers (Katherine Stewart, 2019) pp252-3

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February 26, 2025

A resource-hungry galaxy empire

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From China’s Galaxy Empire (John Keane & Baogang He, 2024) pp172-8

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Watchmen on the Wall

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From The Power Worshippers (Katherine Stewart, 2019) pp13-5

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World’s largest official creditor

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From China’s Galaxy Empire (John Keane & Baogang He, 2024) pp87-90

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February 22, 2025

Dark Triad

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From Corruptible (Brian Klaas, 2021) pp90-1

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February 12, 2025

Centrifugal notions of selfishness and competitiveness

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From Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Plehewe, Slobodian & Mirowski, 2020) pp10-1

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February 8, 2025

Professors are the enemy

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From How Fascism Works (Jason Stanley, 2020) pp121-4

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February 6, 2025

They are criminals. We make mistakes.

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From How Fascism Works (Jason Stanley, 2020) pp113-5

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Mythic superiority in vain pursuit of a sense of dignity

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From How Fascism Works (Jason Stanley, 2020) pp190-3

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February 5, 2025

Stark economic inequality

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From How Fascism Works (Jason Stanley, 2020) pp183-5

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February 4, 2025

Hard labor, in Nazi ideology, had a remarkable power

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From How Fascism Works (Jason Stanley, 2020) pp152-5

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February 3, 2025

Associating blackness with laziness

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From How Fascism Works (Jason Stanley, 2020) pp82-3

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February 2, 2025

Delusions that mask reality

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From How Fascism Works (Jason Stanley, 2020) pp76-7

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February 1, 2025

Mythic history

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From How Fascism Works (Jason Stanley, 2020) pp20-1

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January 31, 2025

Reinforce a distinction between “us” and “them”

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From How Fascism Works (Jason Stanley, 2020) ppxviii- xxi

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January 27, 2025

A strong leader to cut through the quagmire of red tape, …

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From Fear (Robert Peckham, 2023) pp192-7

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January 24, 2025

Paternalism & the “distrust trap”

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From Collective Illusions (Todd Rose, 2022) pp174-7

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January 23, 2025

Benefits of identity complexity

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From Collective Illusions (Todd Rose, 2022) pp48-9

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January 20, 2025

A book Adolf Hitler is said to have called “my bible.”

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From Forty-one False Starts (Janet Malcolm, 2013) pp136-9

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January 13, 2025

The overthrow of everything, indeed.

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From Why We’re Polarized (Ezra Klein, 2020) pp186-7

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America isn’t like Australia

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From Why We’re Polarized (Ezra Klein, 2020) pp171-2

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January 12, 2025

Non-Hispanic Whites

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From Why We’re Polarized (Ezra Klein, 2020) pp104-5

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January 5, 2025

The rational partisan

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From Why We’re Polarized (Ezra Klein, 2020) pp11-3

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December 7, 2024

An unforced error of the gravest kind.

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From Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism (Steven Hamilton & Richard Holden, 2024) pp87-8

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December 6, 2024

Effectively impossible in the United States

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From Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism (Steven Hamilton & Richard Holden, 2024) pp47-9

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November 24, 2024

The struggle for Jerusalem never ends

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From Thirteen Days in September (Lawrence Wright, 2014) pp193-5

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November 22, 2024

The Fighting Jew

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From Thirteen Days in September (Lawrence Wright, 2014) pp137-9

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November 20, 2024

Divine commandments

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From Thirteen Days in September (Lawrence Wright, 2014) pp43-5

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November 19, 2024

The stupid party

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From The Corrosion of Conservatism (Max Boot, 2018) pp177-9

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November 18, 2024

It was all a big mistake

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From The Corrosion of Conservatism (Max Boot, 2018) pp53-5

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November 15, 2024

Guns, religion, and immigration

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From White Rural Rage (Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman, 2024) pp219-23

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November 14, 2024

Drawing lines of identity

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From White Rural Rage (Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman, 2024) pp101-3

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November 13, 2024

Erasing rural identities

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From White Rural Rage (Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman, 2024) pp35-7

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November 12, 2024

Often make those lives worse

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From White Rural Rage (Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman, 2024) pp228-9

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November 10, 2024

They live through him

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From Prophets of Deceit (Lowenthal & Guterman, 1949, 2021) pp149-50

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November 6, 2024

As a child drinks his mother’s milk

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From Legacy of Silence (Dan Bar-On, 1989) pp161-3

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November 4, 2024

The agitator says keep scratching

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From Prophets of Deceit (Lowenthal & Guterman, 1949, 2021) pp14-17

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October 24, 2024

Strange medley of people

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From A Brutal Reckoning (Peter Cozzens, 2023) pp30-3

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October 21, 2024

Prepared to squander manpower

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From Conflict (David Petraeus & Andrew Roberts, 2023) pp176-8

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October 20, 2024

The relationship between individualism and psychopathy

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From Taming Toxic People (David Gillespie, 2017) pp227-8

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The end of this story will not be pretty

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From Taming Toxic People (David Gillespie, 2017) pp209-10

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October 15, 2024

Many people desire disinformation

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From Autocracy, Inc. (Anne Applebaum, 2024) pp163-4

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Put an End to Transnational Kleptocracy

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From Autocracy, Inc. (Anne Applebaum, 2024) pp159-60

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October 13, 2024

Perpetrating a fraud

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From After the Apocalypse (Andrew Bacevich, 2021) pp142-5

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October 9, 2024

Inhuman barbarism

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From After the Apocalypse (Andrew Bacevich, 2021) pp23-6

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October 5, 2024

The majority of the looters were women

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From Kristallnacht 1938 (Alan E.Steinweis 2009) pp77-9

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October 2, 2024

Lasciate ogni speranza

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From The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation (Max Weber, 1917)

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“Our Path Is the Right One”

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From Kristallnacht 1938 (Allan E. Steinweis, 2009) pp13-5

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October 1, 2024

The watchman said

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From The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation (Max Weber, 1917)

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September 28, 2024

Thirty membranes

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From The War Below (Ernest Scheyder, 2024) pp283-5

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September 18, 2024

Fire hose of falsehoods

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From Autocracy, Inc. (Anne Applebaum, 2024) pp77-9

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September 17, 2024

The monopoly of legitimate physical violence

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From The Vocation Lectures: Politics as a Vocation (Max Weber, 1919) pp32-3

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September 16, 2024

Streams of cash

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From Autocracy, Inc. (Anne Applebaum, 2024) pp30-1

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September 13, 2024

They didnt come back to see me

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From No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy, 2006) pp159-60

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September 10, 2024

The jump backward

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From Spying on the South (Tony Horwitz, 2019) pp130-

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The little bugs

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From Spying on the South (Tony Horwitz, 2019) pp119-

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September 9, 2024

Is the pattern repeating?

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From Repeat: A Warning from History (Richard Glover, 2024) p4-5

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September 8, 2024

The ‘three hundred Elders’

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From The Hitler Conspiracies (Richard J. Evans, 2010) pp23-37

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September 7, 2024

Reforms needed

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From Tyranny of the Minority (Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, 2023) pp232-3

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September 6, 2024

Shouting past each other

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From Spying on the South (Tony Horwitz, 2019) pp34-5

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September 5, 2024

White grievance politics

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From Tyranny of the Minority (Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, 2023) pp115-6

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September 3, 2024

Often in suits and ties

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From Tyranny of the Minority (Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, 2023) pp40-4

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August 30, 2024

We may be stuck

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From How democracy ends (David Runciman, 2018) pp78-80

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August 18, 2024

Regulatory capture

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From Smoke and Ashes (Amitav Ghosh, 2023) pp292-7

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August 17, 2024

Ideology of Free Trade capitalism

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From Smoke and Ashes (Amitav Ghosh, 2023) pp212-5

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Great missionary zeal

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From Smoke and Ashes (Amitav Ghosh, 2023) pp198-202

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August 16, 2024

Racial capitalism

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From Smoke and Ashes (Amitav Ghosh, 2023) pp61

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August 11, 2024

But save the barrel

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From A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn, 1980 [2015]) pp546-7

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July 24, 2024

The twin drives of capitalism and nationalism

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From A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn, 1980 [2015]) pp297-300

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July 21, 2024

Drill, Mine, Burn, Repeat

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From Trump’s Australia (Bruce Wolpe, 2023) pp87-91

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July 19, 2024

Coal and Iron Police

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From A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn, 1980 [2015]) pp250-1

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July 14, 2024

The richest ruling class in history

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From A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn, 1980 [2015]) pp83-91

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June 27, 2024

Religion makes inspiration easy

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From Cultural Amnesia (Clive James, 2007) pp628-31

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June 15, 2024

On a path to civil war

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From The Forever War (Nick Bryant, 2024) pp256-9

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June 12, 2024

Consumerism, materialism and financial self-centredness.

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From The Forever War (Nick Bryant, 2024) pp166-8

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June 11, 2024

Demagogues of the 20th century

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From The Forever War (Nick Bryant, 2024) pp104-6

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June 5, 2024

Power Tripping

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From Apocalypse Never (Michael Shellenberger, 2020) pp222-3

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May 12, 2024

These are the catering classes

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From Deer Hunting with Jesus (Joe Bageant, 2007) pp258-9

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May 11, 2024

Israel is the key to everything

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From Deer Hunting with Jesus (Joe Bageant, 2007) pp162-8

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May 8, 2024

A gangster capitalist class

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From Deer Hunting with Jesus (Joe Bageant, 2007) pp88-92

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May 5, 2024

Contorted mental gymnastics

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From How to Win an Information War (Peter Pomerantsev, 2024 ) pp159-60

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April 25, 2024

Doudna quits

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From The Code Breaker (Walter Isaacson, 2021) pp210-2

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April 9, 2024

White Australia

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From Manning Clark’s History of Australia (Ed: Michael Cathcart, 1993) pp411-2

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March 29, 2024

Blacks were being driven away too

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From Dark Star Safari (Paul Theroux, 2002) pp356-8

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March 23, 2024

Structural unfairness

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From The making of America’s fury (Evan Osnos, 2021) pp52-3

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March 15, 2024

They are the future of this country

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From The Rebels (Joshua Green, 2024) pp174-6

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March 10, 2024

Obama’s populist makeover

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From The Rebels (Joshua Green, 2024) pp147-51

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March 9, 2024

A Little Learning

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From Chums (Simon Kuper, 2022) pp38-41

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March 8, 2024

Warren’s brand of liberal populism

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From The Rebels (Joshua Green, 2024) pp83-6

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March 1, 2024

Human nature as such is at stake

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp590-2

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February 28, 2024

The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp575-7

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February 27, 2024

Objective enemy

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp448-51

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February 23, 2024

Job holders and good family men

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp446-9

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February 22, 2024

Meine Ehre heisst Treue

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp428-32

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February 21, 2024

Sanitation worked

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From Doom (Niall Ferguson, 2021) pp158-9

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February 20, 2024

The germs of a deadly sickness

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp368

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February 17, 2024

Not remembered by human history.

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp250-4

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February 11, 2024

The impossibility of social democracy

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From Techno Feudalism: What killed capitalism (Yanis Varoufakis, 2023) pp179-85

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February 10, 2024

Two, conflicting, super cloud fiefs

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From Techno Feudalism: What killed capitalism (Yanis Varoufakis, 2023) pp151-3

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February 8, 2024

Krushevan and the forgery

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From Pogrom: Kishinev and the tilt of history (Steven J. Zipperstein, 2018) pp167-70

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January 25, 2024

Surplus elites

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From The New Leviathans (John Gray, 2023)

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January 23, 2024

The Wealth Pump

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From End Times (Peter Turchin, 2023) p238

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January 12, 2024

Identity, mobility, prosperity, security and sovereignty – the conservative base.

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From Geography is Destiny (Ian Morris, 2022) pp13-5

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January 7, 2024

Information processing is critical to social development

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From Why the West Rules – for now (Ian Morris, 2010) pp148-9

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November 8, 2023

Elements for a participatory socialism

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From Capital and Ideology (Thomas Picketty, 2020) p967

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November 4, 2023

Noise and smells

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From Capital and Ideology (Thomas Picketty, 2020) p830

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October 7, 2023

Lang had seen Kilcoy coming

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From Killing for Country (David Marr, 2023) pp128-30

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July 7, 2023

A new model … “mafia state”

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From Surviving Autocracy (Masha Gessen, 2022) pp4-6

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Arguments are often lost this way. .

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From Surviving Autocracy (Masha Gessen, 2022) pp114-6

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June 17, 2023

Anti-Semitism was a fixture of the Czech state

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From Still Pictures (Janet Malcolm, 2023) pp10-12

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May 28, 2023

“One People, One Reich, One Faith”

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer, 1960) pp236-40

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May 18, 2023

A state within a state

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer, 1960) pp118-21

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May 10, 2023

Amongst the elite

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From The Bodies of Others (Naomi Wolf 2022) pp50-2

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Reasonable goals

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From The Bodies of Others (Naomi Wolf 2022) p154

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May 4, 2023

A new social experiment?

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From The Bodies of Others (Naomi Wolf 2022) p131

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April 16, 2023

Omissions and double standards

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From The War on the West (Douglas Murray 2022) pp174-83

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April 3, 2023

Support for political extremism

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From The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (Martin Wolf 2022)

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The educated have a huge advantage

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From Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Anne Case & Angus Deaton, 2020) pp52-3

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April 2, 2023

A new destiny

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From The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century (Peter Watson, 2022)

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March 31, 2023

We have largely ignored …

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p190-1

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March 28, 2023

The wave of the future?

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p132-3

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March 26, 2023

Everybody would be pitching in

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p66

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Potatoes partly made of oil.

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p74-5

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The four material pillars of modern civilization

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p41

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February 15, 2023

High cultural values

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From History’s Fools: The Pursuit of Idealism and the Revenge of Politics (David Martin Jones, 2022) p13

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February 8, 2023

A teller of half-truths

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux) p348-50

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February 4, 2023

We should use contact tracing to find superspreaders.

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From How to prevent the next pandemic (Bill Gates, 2022) p97-100

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January 29, 2023

Something weirdly colonial

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux) p162-3

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January 17, 2023

Tapping out the code

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux) p96-8

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January 13, 2023

An alien at home

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux) p18-20

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December 10, 2022

… what “politics” means for us …

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From Politics as a Vocation (Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures) p33

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November 18, 2022

Forty interlocking committees

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From That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis, 1945) p38

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November 5, 2022

Surely, nothing could be worse.

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From The Human Condition (Hannah Arendt, 1958 1998) pp2-5

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October 12, 2022

They can’t afford to be wrong.

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From Mistakes were made but not by me (Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, 2016) pp296-9

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September 6, 2022

Law & Order in Asia

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From The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Paul Theroux, 1975)

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August 30, 2022

In the giant planetary hypermarket

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From On the plain of snakes (Paul Theroux, 2019) pp406-10

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August 7, 2022

The wounded healer

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From Sanhedrin 98a (more…)

MD audio

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….

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s226/sh/e6e00d07-2151-420e-8df7-c6e5f14637fb/4f068817f9b62f887cb5ef16e9b93bd3

July 30, 2022

Speech is what makes man a political being

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From The Human Condition (Hannah Arendt, 1958, 2018) pp 1-6

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June 12, 2022

A tragic story

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From The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s (Mark Davis, 2008) pp 38-41

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May 24, 2022

The same region by another name

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From Contest for the Indo-Pacific (Rory Medcalf, 2020) pp 102-6

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May 12, 2022

Force

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From Contest for the Indo-Pacific (Rory Medcalf, 2020) pp 16-7

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April 23, 2022

MIC 2025

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From The Avoidable War (Kevin Rudd, 2022) pp 72-5

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A substantive strategic alliance.

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From The Avoidable War (Kevin Rudd, 2022) pp 35-7

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April 11, 2022

To claim God is on your side is no guarantee of virtue

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From Dangerous Allies (Malcolm Fraser, 2014) pp 20-3

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April 3, 2022

“memory alone can be a form of justice”

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From In Europe’s Shadow (Robert D. Kaplan, 2016) pp 215-8

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April 2, 2022

There are incalculable human costs to Western inaction

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From In Europe’s Shadow (Robert D. Kaplan, 2016) pp 175-6

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March 16, 2022

“Cut their throats”

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From Churchill and the Jews (Martin Gilbert, 2007) pp 52-6

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March 13, 2022

A Jewish homeland in Palestine

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From Churchill and the Jews (Martin Gilbert, 2007) pp 10-12

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March 12, 2022

Geographic logic

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From In Europe’s Shadow (Robert D. Kaplan, 2016) pp 47-8

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January 25, 2022

“You’re just a pack of liars”

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From Spying on the South (Tony Horwitz, 2019) pp 242-9

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January 24, 2022

Huey Long foreshadowed Trump

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From Spying on the South (Tony Horwitz, 2019) pp 131-2

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December 31, 2021

She’d done a course in cosmetology

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux, 2015) pp 269-71

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December 30, 2021

The Truth Won’t Out

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From Dishonesty is the second-best policy (David Mitchell, 2019) pp 4-8

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December 29, 2021

The Inevitable Mr. Patel

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux, 2015) pp 159-63

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December 28, 2021

She hates the unions

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux, 2015) pp 42,44,48

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December 24, 2021

Packing the Court

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From Yesterday’s Man: The case against Joe Biden (Branko Marcetic, 2020) pp 85

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December 22, 2021

“They covered it up”

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From Rage (Bob Woodward, 2020) pp 333-5

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October 16, 2021

The Waste Generation

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From Notes from a Big Country (Bill Bryson, 1998) pp 235-8

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Socrates on Merit

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From The Consolations of Philosophy (Alain De Botton, 2008) pp 19-20

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September 26, 2021

The most potent military base south of Guam

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From China Panic (David Brophy, 2021) pp 90-3
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September 25, 2021

A convenient location

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From China Panic (David Brophy, 2021) pp 77-8
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September 18, 2021

C4ISR – the new catch-phrase for Oz

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From The End Game (Rush Doshi, 2021) pp 323-5

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Straddling fault-lines

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Swept up by relentless flood of mingled Authoritarianism & Capitalism. Australia with both feet in the quagmire.

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September 10, 2021

The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation

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From The End Game (Rush Doshi, 2021) pp 264, 267-71

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August 23, 2021

Democratization of digital connectivity

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From ‘Out Of The Mountains‘ (David Kilcullen, 2013) pp173-6

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August 21, 2021

Without satellites, without an air force

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From Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, 2006) pp 273-4

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The emerging environment of coastal megacities.

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From ‘Out Of The Mountains‘ (David Kilcullen, 2013) pp261-4

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August 7, 2021

The warning of John Cotton

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From The Irony of American History (Reinhold Niebuhr, 1952) 21-3

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August 4, 2021

We will teach those little people a lesson.

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From The River at the Centre of the World (Simon Winchester, 1996) 133-9

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July 20, 2021

Work Hard to Make the Company Prosperous

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From The Life and Death of Democracy (John Keane, 2009) 832-6

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July 9, 2021

Kefauver liked to investigate things.

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From Empire of Pain (Patrick Radden Keene, 2021) 82-4

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April 18, 2021

Joining the dots

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:08 pm

US withdrawal from AF marks end of US-Islam wars.

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March 31, 2021

Repudiate neoliberalism, and build back better.

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From Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics (Bill Bowtell, 2021) excerpts

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February 13, 2021

The absence of insects

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:14 pm

From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp311

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February 9, 2021

A sinister, bewildering dreamscape

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:37 pm

From Twilight of the Elites (Christopher Hayes, 2012) p104-7

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February 4, 2021

Hyper-Globalization and its Discontents

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From Money and Government (Robert Skidelsky, 2018) p311-4

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The question of how capitalism will evolve

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From Capitalism, Alone (Branko Milanovic, 2019) p216-7

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A dystopia of personal relations

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From Capitalism, Alone (Branko Milanovic, 2019) p196-7

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February 2, 2021

Global inequality of opportunity is not … a problem

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From Capitalism, Alone (Branko Milanovic, 2019) p157-8

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January 31, 2021

They do not want to subsidize the “others”

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From Capitalism, Alone (Branko Milanovic, 2019) p51-3

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January 30, 2021

Unity is a chimera that some will always pursue

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From Twilight of Democracy (Anne Applebaum, 2020) p109-13

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January 25, 2021

There would have been no Lexus

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From What’s wrong with Economics? (Robert Skidelsky, 2020) p36

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January 24, 2021

Our utilitarian political culture

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From How Much is Enough? (Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky, 2012) pp176-7

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January 22, 2021

I don’t see anything!

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From We have been harmonised (Kai Strittmatter, 2020) pp246-50

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January 21, 2021

The Master Algorithm

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From We have been harmonised (Kai Strittmatter, 2020) pp183-8

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January 20, 2021

Singles Day

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From We have been harmonised (Kai Strittmatter, 2020) pp102-3

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Xi-time

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From We have been harmonised (Kai Strittmatter, 2020) pp138-9

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January 17, 2021

Business as usual in America’s backyard

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From The concise untold history of the United States (Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick, 2015) pp257-62

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A truly American obsession — the fear of weakness.

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From The concise untold history of the United States (Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick, 2015) pp197-205

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January 15, 2021

Racism prevailed

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From The concise untold history of the United States (Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick, 2015) pp95-6

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January 13, 2021

Tanks, bayonets, and tear gas.

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From The concise untold history of the United States (Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick, 2015) pp34-41

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January 9, 2021

Texas leads the way

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From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp280-3

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The long and bloody march of Texas history

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From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp271-4

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January 8, 2021

Argyria

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From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp262-5

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January 7, 2021

Recount the vote!

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From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp133-6

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January 4, 2021

This is Buurtzorg

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From Extra Time (Camilla Cavendish, 2019) pp173-8

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January 2, 2021

Geriatric peace

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 9:20 am

From Extra Time (Camilla Cavendish, 2019) pp16-8

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January 1, 2021

The Story of the Sugar Tax

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From Extra Time (Camilla Cavendish, 2019) pp63-5

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Toward better telehealth consultations

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John Campbell’s COVID19 updates on Youtube could be an exemplar.

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November 30, 2020

Luanda: the improvised city

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From The Last Train to Zona Verde (Paul Theroux, 2013) pp318-9

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November 29, 2020

Heaven is high and the emperor is far away

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From The Last Train to Zona Verde (Paul Theroux, 2013)

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November 8, 2020

Alone, Unarmed, Afraid

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From The Fear (Peter Godwin, 2010) p135-42

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October 30, 2020

Like asking for the moon

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From The wonderful mistake (Lewis Thomas, 1988) p28-32

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October 22, 2020

We’re afraid of strangers

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From The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan, 1997) p388- etc

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October 13, 2020

Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

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From Britain’s Best Museums and Galleries (Mark Fisher, 2004) p299

Manchester’s industries remembered in mighty 19th-century warehouses and market hall

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August 30, 2020

Chaos, like the grave, is a haven of equality.

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From The True Believer (Eric Hoffer, 1951) pp98-101

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August 29, 2020

Let the sleeping morality lie

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From Strangers at Our Door (Zygmunt Bauman, 2016) pp107-12

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August 24, 2020

Democracy does not breed democrats

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From Can it happen here?: Authoritarianism in America (Ed: Cass Sunstein, 2018) pp209-11

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July 26, 2020

The “inner dialectic” of expansion

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From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp284-5

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July 25, 2020

A restored imperial presidency

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 9:34 am

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp218-222

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July 24, 2020

The promise of endless economic growth

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From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp197-200

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July 18, 2020

Saxon freedom

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From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp114-7

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July 17, 2020

War-sharpened racism & blood-soaked entitlement

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From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp96-9

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Foreigners in their own land

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:33 pm

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp94-6

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July 11, 2020

Where endless sky meets endless hate

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From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp14-6

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His own worst and most terrible enemy

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From The Cold War (John Lewis Gaddis, 2005) pp46-7

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July 9, 2020

Not, as it turns out, to infinity

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From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp2-5

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June 19, 2020

New dilemmas

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From The Language of God (Francis S. Collins, 2006) pp270-2

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June 14, 2020

Foxes do it better

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From On Grand Strategy (John Lewis Gaddis, 2018) pp8-9

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June 11, 2020

Stan Grant @ABCTheDrum 26/5/2020 on liberalism

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[part of his comment, from abt 49min]

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May 26, 2020

Competition and criticism in every walk of life

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From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp172-4

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May 24, 2020

The appeal to magic

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From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp167-70

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May 21, 2020

The profession of denunciation

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From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp488-90

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May 13, 2020

A very long sentence

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From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp437-8

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April 28, 2020

Anchored in the experience of centuries

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From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp243-6, 250

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April 26, 2020

A profoundly democratic approach

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From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp167-9

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April 15, 2020

A devastation of the human world

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:38 pm

From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp70-3

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April 14, 2020

Ideological theories do not generalize; they discover models

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From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp48-50

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April 13, 2020

The emergence of ideology

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From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp17-9

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April 10, 2020

Alas!

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From After Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre, 1997) pp258-9

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April 7, 2020

The corrupting power of institutions

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:17 pm

From After Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre, 1997) pp194-5

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April 5, 2020

The new dark ages

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:42 pm

From After Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre, 1997) pp263

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March 30, 2020

Financial power

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From The Knowledge Wars (Peter Doherty, 2015) pp160-2

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March 16, 2020

Perfidious Albion

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:01 pm

From The Phoney Victory (Peter Hitchens, 2019) pp102-3

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March 15, 2020

Character, Role and Personality

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:12 pm

From After Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre, 1997) pp27-30

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March 10, 2020

Ruinous arms race

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:50 pm

From The Phoney Victory (Peter Hitchens, 2019) pp76-8

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Identity masquerading as ideology

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:56 pm

From This Is Not Propaganda (Peter Pomerantsev, 2019) pp208-11

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March 8, 2020

Their revenge, when it came, was terrible.

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From The Lost Boys (Gina Perry, 2018) pp56-61

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‘A coincidence? I don’t think so!’

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:14 pm

From This Is Not Propaganda (Peter Pomerantsev, 2019) pp68-9

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You couldn’t see the enemy

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From This Is Not Propaganda (Peter Pomerantsev, 2019) pp23-30

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March 7, 2020

The warning that went unheeded

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From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) pp208-15

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February 15, 2020

We know how to reduce harm

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 12:30 pm

From Dead Right (Richard Denniss, 2019) pp146-9

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Graft, kickbacks & old boys’ clubs

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 12:25 pm

From Dead Right (Richard Denniss, 2019) pp143-6

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February 8, 2020

The gas is already in the air

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From The Weather Makers (Tim Flannery, 2005) pp164-5

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What he really wrote about sea-level rise

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From The Weather Makers (Tim Flannery, 2005) pp149-50

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January 19, 2020

All sponsors must also be thanked in the appropriately sized font

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:36 pm

From Dead Right (Richard Denniss, 2019) pp6-11

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January 6, 2020

Dictatorial power at any price

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:49 pm

From The Lesser Evil (Michael Ignatieff, 2003) pp41-4

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December 24, 2019

Prophetic anointing

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:17 pm

From Counterfeit Revival: Unmasking the Truth Behind the World Wide Counterfeit Revival (Hank Hanegraaff, 1997) ppiii-ix (Foreword by Tom Stipe)

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December 20, 2019

Russian politics of eternity

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:05 pm

From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) pp122-4

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December 11, 2019

Ellul on Hatred

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:41 pm

From Propaganda (Jacques Ellul, 1965) pp72-7, 152-3, 162-3

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December 8, 2019

Construction of a myth of innocence

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From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) pp58-60

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December 6, 2019

True believers and their deeply held myths

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:24 am

From Mr Putin (Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy, 2015) p380-1

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The Conservative International

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:02 am

From Mr Putin (Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy, 2015) p350-2

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December 2, 2019

Harnessing the Power of Orthodoxy

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From Mr Putin (Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy, 2015) p253-6

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November 24, 2019

The Survivalist

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From Mr Putin (Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy, 2015) p76-7

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November 19, 2019

The savagery of their conflicts

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From Black Mass (John Gray, 2007) p185-8

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November 10, 2019

$36 per ton

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From Farsighted (Steven Johnson, 2018) p130-2

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Building a mental forecast

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From Farsighted (Steven Johnson, 2018) p122-3

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October 30, 2019

Transgressive energy of the untrammelled market

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From Black Mass (John Gray, 2007) p91-3

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October 29, 2019

Combating Global Islamist Terrorism

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From Leaderless Jihad (Marc Sageman, 2008) p175-8

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October 27, 2019

They are all disciples of the Jacobins

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From Black Mass (John Gray, 2007) p26-7

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October 12, 2019

They Will All Be There on Sydney’s Shores

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From Eye on Australia (Geoffrey Blainey, 1991) p134-7

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October 7, 2019

Capitalism’s riches so glaringly concentrated

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From A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore, 2018) p198-200

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October 6, 2019

At least the chicken was cheap.

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From A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore, 2018) p152-3

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October 5, 2019

Into the company of the heroic.

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From Alien Powers: the pure theory of ideology (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) p118-22

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October 2, 2019

Europe’s wealthy ate the sugar, and sugar ate the island.

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From A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore, 2018) p14-17

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September 17, 2019

The elephant

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From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p32-9

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September 15, 2019

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 2004, p499)

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September 6, 2019

The magic name of Krupp

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From Blood and Iron (Peter Mason, 1984) pp122-4

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August 20, 2019

He understood the uses of the media

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From Rome (Robert Hughes, 2011) pp435-6, 454-5, 462

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August 12, 2019

Tony Abbott on USSR, 1982

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From Quarterly Essay 48, 2012 (Correspondence re ‘Political Animal’ by George Brandis, pp82-3

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August 11, 2019

Taiwan is the big prize. Washington is the biggest obstacle.

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From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p162-7

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The Reaction

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From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p118-21

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August 4, 2019

No longer barbaric

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From A Most Dangerous Book (Christopher B. Krebs, 2011) pp92-6

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July 28, 2019

Ethnic shoehorning

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From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p94-7

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July 26, 2019

Dashed expectations

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From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p31-5

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July 22, 2019

The Blacks were considered unfriendly

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From I Can Jump Puddles (Alan Marshall, 1965) p41

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July 18, 2019

Because God likes us best

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From The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson, 1996) p265-6

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July 17, 2019

Some of them can hardly speak a coherent sentence.

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From The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson, 1996) p212-4

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July 14, 2019

Back to a timeless, placeless, utopian Germanien

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From A Most Dangerous Book (Christopher B. Krebs, 2011) pp214-7

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July 12, 2019

Modernization

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From The Post-American World (Fareed Zakaria, 2008) pp73-7

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Davos culture

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From Twilight of the Elites (Christopher Hayes, 2012) p154-9

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July 7, 2019

Universal civilization?

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From The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Samuel P. Huntington, 1996) p56-9

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Law and order is the first prerequisite of Civilization

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From The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Samuel P. Huntington, 1996) p318-21

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Enemies are essential

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From The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Samuel P. Huntington, 1996) p1-2

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July 4, 2019

Exuberantly nihilistic

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From Black Earth (Timothy Snyder, 2015) p1-2

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July 3, 2019

Counting the syringes

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From The Patient (Mohamed Khadra, 2009) p81-2

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The idea that Britain is a big place

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From Notes from a small island (Bill Bryson, 1996) p1-3

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June 21, 2019

Many millions of persons will be starved to death

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p832-4

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June 19, 2019

“We’re in a Street Fight with These People”

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From The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver, 2012) p408-11

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A moment of convulsive rage

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p824-6

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June 15, 2019

A typical falsification and … a dire threat

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p778-80

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June 12, 2019

The main thing lacking has been the necessary political will.

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From Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Jared Diamond, 2019) pp414-6

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June 11, 2019

They do not want to apologize

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From Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Jared Diamond, 2019) pp314-6

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June 10, 2019

Leftists don’t have to be radical and intransigent

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From Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Jared Diamond, 2019) pp163-5

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June 9, 2019

Lessons for Australia from Finland

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From Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Jared Diamond, 2019) pp87-91

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June 8, 2019

More Extremism, Less Extremism

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From Conformity (Cass Sunstein, 2019) pp93-4

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May 27, 2019

A suitable place for profitable operations

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p664-5

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May 26, 2019

He was thinking of Churchill.

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p641-2

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May 12, 2019

Insisting on a world that had never existed

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From Pandora’s Lab (Paul Offitt, 2016) pp185-9

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Ill-suited to the demands of an industrial economy

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Spoken Here (Mark Abley, 2003, 2011) pp163-7

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May 11, 2019

Ecological catastrophe

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From Rainbow Pie (Joe Bageant, 2010 ) pp85-93

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The warning signals of annoying minorities

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From The Journalist and the Murderer (Janet Malcolm, 1990) pp111-2

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May 7, 2019

Seduction and betrayal

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From The Journalist and the Murderer (Janet Malcolm, 1990) pp3-5

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May 6, 2019

The weakness of the democratic powers

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p477

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The summit of his oratory

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp471-2

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May 5, 2019

“This is the greatest day of my life!”

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp446-8

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May 3, 2019

The nation was catching it, as if it were a virus.

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp434-5

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The proof is stronger if the people still speak an ancestral language

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From Spoken Here (Mark Abley, 2003, 2011) pp37

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May 1, 2019

The ringing cheers of the crowd

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp396-9

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April 30, 2019

A shabby diplomatic trick

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp376-7

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April 29, 2019

Nagawicka

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From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp10,11,13

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April 28, 2019

Manipulation of empathic intuitions

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From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp632-3

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April 27, 2019

Intertwining of moral and visceral disgust

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From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp561-2

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April 24, 2019

Hierarchy, Obedience, and Resistance

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From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp475-7

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April 23, 2019

What a wonderful country.

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From Neither Here Nor There (Bill Bryson, 1991) pp262-5

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April 20, 2019

Esperanto didn’t have a hope.

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From Spoken Here (Mark Abley, 2004) pp88-94

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April 19, 2019

Everything costs a fortune.

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From Neither Here Nor There (Bill Bryson, 1991) pp147-9

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April 17, 2019

It depends on the environment.

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From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp253-4

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April 7, 2019

Immense feudal estates

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp257-8

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Our frequent human tragedy

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From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp69-70

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March 1, 2019

Estimating Uncertainty

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From The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver, 2012) pp406-11

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January 28, 2019

A revolt of middle class hipsters

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From The Revolt of the Public (Martin Gurri, 2018) pp138-42

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In the dubious limbo

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From Fire and Fury (Michael Wolff, 2018) pp16-8

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January 21, 2019

Doomed to extinction

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From The Enigmatic Mister Deakin (Judith Brett, 2017) pp120-3

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January 19, 2019

A pious empty hope

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From The Enigmatic Mister Deakin (Judith Brett, 2017)

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January 10, 2019

Bannon’s strategy of the United States.

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From Fear (Bob Woodward, 2018) p196

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December 30, 2018

Test fonts

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testing

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Going viral

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From Bad Advice (Paul Offitt, 2018) pp107-9

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December 23, 2018

A slow, powerful drilling through hard boards

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From Politics as a Vocation (Max Weber, 1919, Rodney Livingstone translation) p92-4

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December 11, 2018

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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November 29, 2018

Russians exploited American gullibility

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From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) p244-9 (more…)

November 27, 2018

For me, the irony never quite abated

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From Unaccountable (Janina Wedel, 2014) p86-7 (more…)

“Putin is not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down.”

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From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) p212-5 (more…)

November 26, 2018

The only winner was China.

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From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) p196-7 (more…)

November 18, 2018

A question of the price of bread

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From How democracy Ends (David Runciman, 2018) p106-8 (more…)

November 17, 2018

Coups and zombie democracy

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From How democracy Ends (David Runciman, 2018) p44-7 (more…)

November 7, 2018

The very basis of all leftist humanism

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From Crises of the Republic (Hannah Arendt, 1972) p114-5 (more…)

November 6, 2018

The spirit of history

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From Nations and Nationalism (Ernest Gellner) p124 (more…)

But they didn’t get it

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From The Shortest History of Germany (James Hawes, 2018) p126-7 (more…)

Fordism

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From The Shortest History of Germany (James Hawes, 2018) p157 (more…)

A Prussian solution for Russia, 1887

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From The Shortest History of Germany (James Hawes, 2018) p124 (more…)

November 2, 2018

Students of myth

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From Weimar Culture (Peter Gay, 2001) pp34-5 (more…)

There was one exception: Max Weber

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From Weimar Culture (Peter Gay, 2001) pp36-7 (more…)

He thought himself a German

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From Weimar Culture (Peter Gay, 2001) pp18-21 (more…)

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