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Keynes looks 80 years into the future and across the Atlantic, to explain our broken values

Summary:  A sad aspect of our age is the willful blindness we impose on ourselves. It’s not just the blindness to our world so often described on this website, but also blindness to our past. To avoid learning from our sages we mutilate their message — then laugh at the debased result. Perhaps the clearest …

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Powerful insights about our war in Afghanistan, part 1

We slid into the Iraq rapidly and unknowingly, our way greased by lies.  Not so in Afghanistan.  Our first invasion was in response to 9-11, a fast and bloodless (as such things go) overthrow of al Qaeda’s allies.  An object lesson to our enemies, it might even have resulted in a better regime.  If we had …

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