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Steve is Currently Reading

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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

“For Calhoun, minority rights were a cloak for the interests of the wealthy, the powerful, and most of all, the white supremacist.”
― 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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“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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“It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.”
― Anthony Weston, A Rulebook for Arguments

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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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