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The Harvard B-school program to reform America for higher profits

Summary: Things go poorly for America’s economy, with decades of slowing growth and rising inequality. The insurgencies on the Left and Right in Campaign 2016 show increasing public agitation as people understand what’s happening. Now our business leaders have a solution: yet more policies to boost corporate profits. Their timing is excellent. Both Clinton and …

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Advice about our long war – “It’s the tribes, stupid”

Today’s post examines advice to us from historian Steven Pressfield: “The real enemy in Afghanistan isn’t Islamism or jihadism. It’s tribalism. … Can we Westerners impose ‘citizen values’ on a tribal society?”  (from his website) Some people say our real enemy in Afghanistan is their religion.  Pressfield says our enemy is their form of society.  Both sides agree that they cannot …

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