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  • A Historic Presidency

    A Historic Presidency0

    In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist. This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed.

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  • A Historian’s Disturbing Take on Why a Civilization Breaks Down

    A Historian’s Disturbing Take on Why a Civilization Breaks Down0

    In his famous work A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee examines why some civilizations break down. Interestingly, he concludes that the reason for civilizations breaking down is contained within the very reason for their growth: “[T]he very process by which growth is sustained is inherently risky: the creative leadership of a society has to resort

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  • A Historian Explains Why America Will Probably Fail

    A Historian Explains Why America Will Probably Fail0

    The English author Paul Johnson opens his book A History of the American People (1997) by calling the United States “the greatest of all human adventures.” While clearly a fan of America’s grand experiment, Johnson nonetheless expressed some doubt about whether the nation could succeed beyond the 20th century because of its dark past, which included

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  • A Haunting Line About How Civilizations Fall

    A Haunting Line About How Civilizations Fall0

    • July 29, 2015

      Below is the oft-quoted line from Will Durant, which appears in the Epilogue to volume 3 of his Story of Civilization. You may remember it from the beginning of Mel Gibson’s film Apocalypto.   Here’s the context of the passage: Save this article to favorites

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  • A Gun Control Lesson From Australia’s Cat Genocide

    A Gun Control Lesson From Australia’s Cat Genocide0

    As America reels from another string of mass shootings, first in El Paso, then in Dayton, Ohio, the debate over gun control is heating up again. Any rational observer realizes that there is something deeply flawed with how we traditionally talk about guns in America. I wonder if we would be better off if we

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  • A gun ban isn’t happening.

    A gun ban isn’t happening.0

    For those in favor of keeping the 2nd Amendment, a new poll from ABC News/Washington Post has determined that you are in the majority and the trend line is on your side.  What’s incredible is the change in public opinion since 1994. Love them or hate them, one has to admit that the pro-gun crowd

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