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A Brief History of the 21st Century: Part IV
Given recency of events in this essay, I'm reluctant to conclude the series I started last Fall. But to what'll doubtless be my retrospective regret, I…
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Pointers from a Pencil
The cause of our problems.
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How to Destroy Civilization
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Each Spring, an hour is stolen. The last few years, we've been threatened with not getting it back. How'd we get here, and where are we going? When we…
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