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It is actually not a question of size, because the government must naturally be large to oversee a highly complex nation. The problem is over-complexity and convolution, with subgroups of experts who do not cooperate, trust each other, or work well together.

After 9/11, the United States began operating in Afghanistan, supporting and buying native armies to confront al-Qaeda. But over time these were replaced by U.S. ground forces, and the war expanded to Iraq. What had been a rational war turned into both an unwinnable war and one that would drain and distort American domestic life. Imperial wars exha

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In 1999 Thomas Friedman published The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. It was Das Kapital for Smart America. In Friedman’s account, globalization is the organizing system of the post–Cold War era, but, unlike the Cold War, it is the result of technological advances and blind economic forces, not government policies. Rejecting

As with any great teacher, one can find the strongest evidence of Perry’s legacy in the success of his students: they became legislators, scholars, and businessmen. (CSB was coed, but Perry focused his efforts almost entirely on his male students; while he was ahead of his time in his thinking on disability, his views on gender were, unfortunately,

transformations historiques, la pensée de Tocqueville conserve une singulière actualité en raison du rôle central qu’elle attribue à la liberté politique, de ses ambiguïtés et de ses faiblesses. Or la liberté reste l’enjeu fondamental des crises, des révolutions et des conflits du XXIe siècle. Et la nouvelle crise existentielle que traversent les d