Category: Bibliography
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opinion/treasure-secretaries-doge-musk.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
How the British Broke Their Own Economy
******$$$ The Other Fear of the Founders
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/founders-fear-of-oligarchy/681650/
Yet wealth is no guarantor of wisdom or virtue. A combination of the rich and the ignorant, Adams noted, could empower a demagogue at the expense of democracy.
*****$$$$$ NYTimes: The Breaking of the Constitutional Order
The Breaking of the Constitutional Order www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-yuval-levin.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
NYTimes: The Breaking of the Constitutional Order
The Breaking of the Constitutional Order www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-yuval-levin.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
*****????? NYTimes: Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix
Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/opinion/trump-ukraine-zelensky-usaid.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
NYTimes: Welcome to America’s Fourth Great Constitutional Rupture
Welcome to America’s Fourth Great Constitutional Rupture www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opinion/trump-caesar-constitutional-rupture.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
NYTimes: This Theory Is Behind Trump’s Power Grab
This Theory Is Behind Trump’s Power Grab www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/opinion/trump-roberts-unitary-executive-theory.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
******** $$$$$$$$$ The Putinization of America
“We may never know why Trump is so perversely loyal to Putin,” and “we don’t know exactly why Musk went all in for Trump and Russia,” @Kasparov63 writes. “But the urgency of their actions I do understand, and it’s a dire warning”:
Who Counts as a Hillbilly—And Who Gets to Decide?
The debate over J. D. Vance’s Appalachian roots uncovers the region’s complicated history, @AndrewAoyama writes in Time-Travel Thursday.