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  • How Tyrants Rise: Plato’s Eerie 2,500 Year-Old Warning

    How Tyrants Rise: Plato’s Eerie 2,500 Year-Old Warning0

    How can the wealthiest people make democracies worse? Plato investigates the question in Book VIII of the Republic. Socrates suggests there that, in pursuit of more and more wealth, oligarchic citizens within the democracy will exploit the lower economic classes, even to the point of undermining their own oligarchic economic interests. In other words, the oligarchs’

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  • How TV’s Drip-Feed Destroys Your Mind

    How TV’s Drip-Feed Destroys Your Mind0

    Many years ago, my wife and I decided to unplug ourselves from the prurience and propaganda piped into our homes via the television. It was one of the best decisions we ever made—and one of the most liberating. It freed us from hours of passive servitude to the soporific drip-feed of mind-numbing nonsense that passes

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  • How Trump’s Tariffs Could Enrich Your Home

    How Trump’s Tariffs Could Enrich Your Home17

    Some of the first effects American consumers will feel from Trump’s tariffs will be in how much harder it will be to purchase the fast, cheap goods that Americans are used to procuring with the click of a button. This particular consequence of added duties on imported goods may be one which has a silver

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  • How Trump’s COVID Case Could Affect His Chances of Re-Election

    How Trump’s COVID Case Could Affect His Chances of Re-Election0

    With just a month left until the November 3 U.S. presidential election, contracting the virus could have politically positive or negative consequences for President Donald Trump. These will, of course, be contingent on how severe the president’s illness becomes. But we should not count him out and Biden in just yet. Here are the ways

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  • How Trump is Retooling Politics for the 21st Century

    How Trump is Retooling Politics for the 21st Century0

      Donald J. Trump was the first candidate to become president of the United States without prior experience as a military leader, a politician or ever having held a senior government post. As he delivers his State of the Union address this week, the president has the lowest approval rating of any modern-day commander-in-chief. Yet

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  • How Trump Can Make a Beautiful, Cage-Free Border Deal

    How Trump Can Make a Beautiful, Cage-Free Border Deal0

    Dear President Trump,   You can make the greatest border deal the world has ever seen. This deal will unite everyone by rewriting the playbook of politics.   Instead of taxing a divided public to pay for a border wall, offer a plan that gives something to both sides of the debate. Where there is

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