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His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and completely and utterly not true. [Jordan Michael Smith](https://newrepublic.com/authors/jordan-michael- [...]

2023-06-08: **Primary task**: connections between the neoliberal, capitalist market system, the current nation states of the world, and isolated and melancholy individualism seem numerous, and worthy of some exposition. These notes are a start at [...]

Neiman, S. (2026). Call It Evil. W.W. Norton Google Books preview: Epigraph: Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of [...]

APA: Shaprio, Ian (2026). _After The Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World._ Basic Books. Link: page 107: > ... the NTC never became a functioning government or even succeeded in disarming hostile [...]

APA: Anderson, S. (2025). _King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A story of hubris, delusion and catastrophic miscalculation_. Vintage Books. page 257: > Like economics, revolution is often a matter of faith, a test of the human capacity to believe. [...]