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Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus - Dissent Magazine
https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-joan-didion/
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.
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Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard, by Amy Remeikis
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Where-It-All-Went-Wrong/Amy-Remeikis/9781761822117
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s ยท Gwern.net
https://gwern.net/improvement
A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.
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The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History
https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory
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Losing the War - by Lee Sandlin
https://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm
World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?
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The Operational Trap
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-operational-trap/
Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance, by Jane Gleeson-White
https://www.janegleesonwhite.com/double
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How L. Ron Hubbard Made An Antichrist Using Sex Magic
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/how-l-ron-hubbard-made-an-59110100/