When the Center Does Not Hold
The federalism of the American founders provides a way to contain Americans’ cultural differences within the political system and maintain order.
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The federalism of the American founders provides a way to contain Americans’ cultural differences within the political system and maintain order.
“The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.” — Barbara Tuchman, citing Tuchman’s Law in the preface to her 1978 narrative history, “A Distant Mirror.” One...
The border crisis that we have in the United States is part of the cycle of disease that our model has been projecting. In late May, Sarasota County, Florida, health officials confirmed that they had identified a case of locally transmitted malaria. Then a second confirmed case appeared on June 23 rd in Texas, discovered in
News of the unending stream of brutality, violence and carnage in America; the daily killings, the mindless shooting of children and adults, the pushing of folks into the path of oncoming trains and other traffic, police brutality and the vicious partisan struggle for political power, brings to the mind of the outsider the subtitle of Hans Habe’s book about his travel across the American continent in 1963; ‘Anatomy of Hatred, The Wounded Land, Hans Habe, (George C Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1964) “The Wounded Land” speaks of this sensitive European-American writer’s t...