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Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

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The Problem With Democracy in the Middle East

The Emirates and Saudi Arabia have a kind of eocratic, clan-based sort of ethnocracy. The places that the libertarians truly envy are places that never had democracy in the first place. British conservative looks at all three of those places with a great deal of envy and longing.

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