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Polybius on the politics of Rome
Mary Beard • SPQR
The year 2020 began with an impeachment trial, the third in American history. The president had used his official powers to extort a political favor from a foreign leader in order to help his own reelection. His guilt was clear—only the tribal loyalty of his party kept him in office. But before long hardly anyone remembered the impeachment. The yea
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The Federal Reserve’s response was inadequate, as it did not take sufficient measures to…
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Richard Haass • The World
The historical demand of the oppressed is inclusion as equal citizens in all the institutions of American life. With identity politics, the demand became different: not just to enlarge the institutions, but to change them profoundly.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Power politics