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Douglas MacArthur is one of those blips in history, an idiosyncratic figure who, for reasons hard to satisfactorily explain, acquired far more power than he had any reason to. In the United States in the mid-twentieth century, there were three such men, each operating on a different scale. On the level of the city, there was Robert Moses, who someh
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Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age
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What is more, the overwhelming quantity of material from Cicero’s pen can make it hard to see beyond his perspectives and prejudices.
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Journalists aren’t wrong to interview people in power. But when that’s all they do, they let power – rather than expertise – define the boundaries of legitimate public debate. - Peter Beinart
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