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Noah Smith: We Can Build Again

From the New World

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The Importance of Pragmatism

Every day, every kind of like plot event in world history just makes me feel like history is indeed even more over than we thought it was before. Fukuyama was right. He was making fun of the 20th century people who thought that the grand sweep of history would result in the perfect communist economic system being developed. And he was like, nope, guess what, that didn't happen. So reduced to sort of tanky trolling on Twitter. That's like the best they can do right now. I don't know where everybody gets really, really interested in these grand sweeping theories again We're shifting away from an era of grand sweeping ideologies about the relationship between the state and economy

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