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Debt
The politics of debt have changed extraordinarily over the last century. In the 1930s, when the new national industrial economies collapsed in unison…
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Give the People What They Want
I recently had a brief, always, always as short as possible these days, discussion about America’s reality TV politics. I concluded if someone gave me…
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The Domestic Revolution
Ruth Gordon's excellent, The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything is a wonderful account of the…
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Democratic and Environmental Necessity
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. "Accelerated change invokes the gyroscopic or…
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Reforming Government: What's Up With That? (II)
Continued from (I) In answering this question it's helpful to begin with historian Fernand Braudel's understanding of geography's essential role in…
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Reforming Government: What's Up With That? (I)
Modern republicanism is failing. Initiated two centuries ago with the founding of the United States, modern republicanism resurfaced ancient ideas and…
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Trump
With your feet on the air and head on the ground Try this trick and spin it Your head will collapse when there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself…
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