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America
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The Next Twenty Years
The Long Crisis, Part 7. The series ends where it began, at the fork between two exits. Europe’s choice is mostly made. America’s is not. The real danger is mistaking a strongman’s imposed order for renewal, when the only …
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Love It or Leave It
A patriotic meme says America is so great even its haters won’t leave. It lands a real punch, and it is right that the nation has genuine enemies. But it spots them backwards. The test of a hater is not whether he criticizes the …
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The Country That Was an Argument
Two hundred and fifty years ago a handful of men grounded a country not in a king or a bloodline but in an idea about the individual: that you own yourself, that your rights come before any government, and that a government is legitimate …
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America's Immigration Dilemma
The Long Crisis, Part 6. America’s edge over Europe is real, but it has an immigration problem of its own, and it runs two ways at once. The melting pot can fail because people never join it, or because they join only their own. Both …