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#675: April 25, 2022

Knowledge Fight

CHAPTER

Is There a Democracy in the Middle East?

Alex Castellanos says he hasn't read the Bloomberg op-ed but likes to say the title. The author, Robert Kaplan, has been saying shit like this for over a decade and is not calling for a dictatorship in the U.S.,Castellanos says. He also doesn't know what the end of history refers to or why Carnegie Endowment that runs CIA today was given charter to end war after World War I. But there's a few quick points Alex wants to bring up: One, Julian Huxley didn't propose making the plot of Brave New World into reality; two, John D Rockefeller who said competition is a sin isn't confusing him with Peter Thiel.

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