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The A(braham) Bomb

What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

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The Abrahamic Religions' Vision of History

The three Abrahamic religions have this idea that God then doesn't just leave humanity to suffer in this, you know, cesspool of our own creation. The two kind of secular political movements that have the greatest hold in the world are liberal democracy and Marxism. There is really nothing comparable to this in the intellectual and cultural history of the human race.

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