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Daniel Lattier

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  • Frightening: This Description of the Decline of Rome sounds like America

    Frightening: This Description of the Decline of Rome sounds like America0

    The date traditionally assigned to the Fall of the Roman Empire is 476 A.D., when Odoacer marched on Rome and deposed the last emperor. But Rome’s internal decline began long before then. As Will Durant famously said, “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.” In his 1899 classic

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  • Why Not Having Habits Makes You Miserable

    Why Not Having Habits Makes You Miserable0

    As distant children of the Enlightenment and Age of Reason, we still highly value the ideals of self-determination, freedom from structure, and independence from the past. These things are good—but only to a certain extent. The process of maturity eventually reveals that one is never entirely independent of the past, that the absence of any

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  • How Much Do ‘Signers’ Actually Make?

    How Much Do ‘Signers’ Actually Make?2

    It’s a dilemma faced by many of us when pulling up to the light at an off-ramp: Do we or do we not give money to the person with a sign? For some, it’s a commendable act of charity to give the professedly homeless or down-on-their-luck person some money, no judgments or questions asked. Others,

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  • It’s Not Just Trump Who Thinks America is in Decline

    It’s Not Just Trump Who Thinks America is in Decline0

    As you well know, at least part of Donald Trump’s campaign success has been due to his slogan “Make America Great Again.” The implication behind the slogan is that America is in decline. After all, as professor Noah Smith pointed out earlier this year, “you can’t ‘make America great again’ unless America isn’t-so-great right now.”

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