In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.
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I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
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Trump is a systemic stress test.
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The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
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Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
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I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
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