Stupidity killed the dinosaurs because they were not smart enough to build a rocket to deflect the comet that hit the Earth. Stupidity ended them and greed is likely to end us. We are gambling on our very existences as a species. America was the hoped for superhero and is now the supervillain. Ambiguous griefContinue reading “Why Invade Venezuela?”
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The End Of The Story
Abridged Transcript, On Point (my favorite Public Radio Show)Part I MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is back with us today. She’s a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She writes a Substack newsletter on threats to democracy called Lucid, and she’s author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. And throughout this year,Continue reading “The End Of The Story”
This Is Not The End Of History, This Is The End Of America
11:40 “American power is still the most dynamic force in the world game – powers, great powers don’t fall because of military defeats or economic defeats, they fall because of psychological defeats.” 12:20 “The loss of cohesion, of solidarity, of values, that hold together a society in a common goal – this brings us toContinue reading “This Is Not The End Of History, This Is The End Of America”
Ice on the Moon 