Daily Archives: May 17, 2025

Nathan Cofnas: ‘MAGA Communism and the End of America – The right’s stupidity has reached a tipping point’

Nathan Cofnas writes: Batya Ungar-Sargon is a self-identified Marxist who supports Trump because he is waging “class warfare” and “tell[ing] Wall Street to screw itself.” She looks forward to Trump’s tariffs taking us back to the 70s because: “Back in … Continue reading

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The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership

Clyde Prestowitz wrote in this 2021 book: The United States got rich by imitating Great Britain and thereby marking a trail followed by Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, and South Korea — all of … Continue reading

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War, Dictatorship & International Relations

Please analyze the 2010 essay Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design and Clinton Rossiter’s book on Constitutional Dictatorship in the light of the new John J. Mearsheimer essay on war. Grok says: To analyze the essay “Constitutional Dictatorship: Its … Continue reading

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Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests (2001)

Ralph Gomory, the former IBM chief scientist and Sloan Foundation president, and William J. Baumol, former American Economics Association president, wrote: * In [David] Ricardo’s time trade is estimated to have constituted about 1 percent of world GDP. Since then, … Continue reading

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