Ken Burns’s The War

When Can We Get Underway, Dammit!?!

Created by Sean Dempsey with sources compiled by AI and some paragraphs tweaked by AI There is a scene in Titanic that ought to be carved over the entrance to every treasury department, congressional cloakroom, central bank, defense ministry, think tank, and marble-walled office where men with clean fingernails discuss the future sacrifices of people […]

James Madison: The Father of the Leviathan

The Fall and Rise and Fall of a Founding Father It has long been the custom of civilized nations to adorn the memory of their founders with such quantities of marble, bronze, and reverence that no ordinary citizen dares inquire whether those gentlemen ever committed the smallest error. We are often instructed to regard them […]

The fall of the United States?

From the Guardian: Decline and fall of the American Empire Key passage: “Let me put an alternative hypothesis. America in 2011 is Rome in 200AD or Britain on the eve of the first world war: an empire at the zenith of its power but with cracks beginning to show. The experience of both Rome and […]