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According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more

While he was consumed with the administrative details of the work he undertook, he was always aware of the Big Picture. He had the anthropologist’s ability to stand back, gather information, and make independent judgments based on the facts. This was perhaps his strongest character trait. Whether he was laying out a university or a municipal park s... See more

the hedgehog review • The Man Who Built Forward Better

In a prime spot just across the yellow-tape road from the lemon trees, he tended his own dark grove of bookshelves, and beside them a field of legal boxes, which held thousands of menus from restaurants famous and obscure. Whenever I passed Horace’s collection, there was someone flipping through the menus with the furious intensity of a DJ digging

Robin Sloan • Sourdough

The mysterious life and death of Intrade’s CEO

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In sum, this key railroad, like its predecessor, would be a predictable target for speculators, would be hastily and poorly constructed far ahead of demand, and would be naturally entangled with the road that did reach northwest from the Twin Cities—the Saint Paul and Pacific (SP&P).

Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)

“I will not dwell on his shameless, intolerable associations with all that is worst on the extreme left, his absolute subordination to M. Clemenceau, his debasing intimacy with the men of La Lanterne.”

Frederick Brown • For the Soul of France

Jeffrey Hatfield

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Sérgio Moro, the one-time star judge of the Lava Jato investigation, was one minister whose allegiance looked likely to come into question. Moro had controversially joined Bolsonaro’s team in 2018 to take over the justice portfolio. He had argued that his presence in the administration was the best guarantee that the clean-up of political corruptio

Richard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro

George David Dale

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