The Age of Dis-Enlightenment
The Enlightenment asked whether a claim could be supported. The Dis-Enlightenment increasingly asks how the claim makes us feel.
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Greenland: A Controlled Experiment in Collapse
Twenty years ago I read Jared Diamond’s Collapse. The story of Norse Greenland still matters because it shows how societies rarely fail suddenly. They fail slowly, through reasonable decisions that no longer fit a changing world.
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Is Trump Governing Like a Socialist?
Comparisons between Trump and Bernie Sanders are increasingly common. This piece steps away from rhetoric and examines specific executive actions to assess whether recent economic policy relies more on administrative direction than on market pricing and private decision making.
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