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This piece is well worth a read. There is some overlap between the points it makes and the ones I made in the thread quoted.https://www.theinsight.org/p/the-few-sentences-that-explain-much https://twitter.com/kerry62189/status/1364094550139

Thread for tracking the best/most "interesting" Lincoln commentary. https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/who-do-we-think-we-are/articles/the-great-simplifier https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/lincolns-religion The description does

Police as we know them are a product of modern cities, where there are so many people, most of whom do not know each other, that volunteer community-enforcement becomes untenable.

I keep seeing the assertion that Keynes coined the term "animal spirits" in 1936 to talk about investors. This was an *extremely* common term during the 19c, meaning something like

Lincoln scholars rush to correct Kamala Harris, but she was almost certainly repeating a lie crafted specifically for the occasion by a historian. It wasn't some sort of "error," nor

This is a thread for tracking disease experts' assessments of pandemic policies. https://unherd.com/2020/09/africas-catastrophic-covid-response/ https://twitter.com/kerry62189/status/1304291030766944257?s=20 I'm converging on a theo