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May
23

How Bad Will the Next Trump Years Be? Plus, Why America’s Entering a Social Mania Around Trump Again, and Why They’ll Blame This Disaster On Us

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10 min read
May
22

Why America’s Headed for Another Trump Era, How it Feels Watching My Predictions Come True, Plus How to (Really) Think About the Economy

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12 min read
May
20

How Painful Is It Watching the Democrats Lose?

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2 min read
May
20

Weekly Open Thread and Digest

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1 min read
May
17

Liberalism’s Failing Because it Gave up on Liberation, The Words That Saved My Life, and How Systems Fail When Paradigms Don’t Shift

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11 min read
May
14

Vision in the 21st Century, What Happens When Economies Create 99% Losers and 1% Winners, and The Promise of Something Better Than a World on Fire

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10 min read
May
13

The Despair of the World’s Brightest Minds, Why the World Isn’t Listening to Them, Why it Matters, Plus, What Failure’s Teaching Me and How it Feels

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11 min read
May
12

Weekly Open Thread and Digest

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1 min read
May
09

A Manifesto for Leadership in the 21st Century

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9 min read
May
08

The Question of Happiness in an Age of Extinction, The Purpose of Sorrow, and Transforming Ourselves and Our Civilization

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12 min read