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Quotes: 6 August 2026
Waste Land
Robert D. Kaplan
History, once again, is a series of hinges. Even if the trends are bad, as I have certainly enumerated, better and worse outcomes are always available.
A stunningly simple and—=should be—obvious truth. Binary...
Quotes: 4 August 2026
Ultrasociety
Peter Turchin
[O]ne of Rousseau’s most important conclusions: inequality results from people’s efforts to be thought of and treated as superior. Whatever the supporting role of factors such as population growth, intensive agr...
Quotes: 2 August 2026
Apologies to the Grandchildren
William Ophuls
And it is indeed up to you [the “grandchildren”]; your elders are probably irredeemable. While we may have left you with little in the way of resources, your task is not hopeless. In the end c...
Quotes: 29 July 2026
Kinds of Power
James Hillman
Whatever the method—logical, empirical, phenomenological—we have to use language. A method persuades us by the power of its language, its rhetoric, defined as “the art of persuasion.” Therefore, if we can get...
Federalist No. 40
FEDERALIST NO. 40
On the Powers of the Convention to Form a Mixed Government Examined and Sustained
For the New York Packet Friday, January 18, 1788
MADISON
To the People of the State of New York:
THE SECOND po...
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I’m a retired attorney & counselor. I received my eduction from the U of Iowa. I’m an Iowa native. My wife & I lived in India, China, and Romania between 2012 & 2018.
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