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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

by Charles C. Mann

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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

by Fareed Zakaria

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“The Framers were realists who wrote the Constitution in the shadow of the Articles of Confederation, the disastrously ineffective system of government that allowed a minority of members of Congress to block the majority from acting.”
― Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

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“To the Framers, a “republic” meant what we today call a democracy: a system where the people elect their representatives, who then write and vote on laws.”
― Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

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“The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

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“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

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“We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it.”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

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