Bibliography

**** $$$$$$ There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing

“Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation,” writes @anneapplebaum.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYd8xqNLcZ9lqGzP_2I3lBmw&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Bring Back the War Department

Among his many promised changes for the military, Trump “could swiftly enact one cultural change at the Pentagon that would be for the good,” writes @elliotackerman. “Trump could ask Congress to redesignate the Defense Department as the War Department”:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/trump-administration-positive-defense-reform/680872/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYaRRVc303_qI71ZXq7uf1pQ&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

$$$$$$ ***** America’s ‘Marriage Material’ Shortage

“Social isolation is rising alongside romantic isolation, as the economic and cultural trajectories of men and women move in opposite directions,” @DKThomp writes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/america-marriage-decline/681518/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYdz2WmENaCyIFjSV51Ovqig&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social