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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World

by Jack Weatherford

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May 28, 2026 08:19AM

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford

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May 13, 2026 09:22AM

“Nor during the Age of Innovation have the poor gotten poorer, as people are always saying. On the contrary, the poor have been the chief beneficiaries of modern capitalism. It is an irrefutable historical finding, obscured by the logical truth that the profits from innovation go in the first act mostly to the bourgeois rich.”
― Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

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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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“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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“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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“What constitutes a civil society? At minimum, it is a place where ideas, of all kinds, can be criticized without the risk of physical violence. If you live in a land where certain things cannot be said about the king, or about an imaginary being, or about certain books, because such utterances carry the penalty of death, torture, or imprisonment, you do not live in a civil society. It”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

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