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346. Russia/Ukraine, ESG, gigantism and the West | Senator Mike Lee

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Rise of the State in the United States

The modern nation state by necessity needs to consolidate as much power as possible. And so that concentration of power tends to cause the government to become larger, taxes to be more intrusive. There was a Harvard professor named Roger Porter who wrote a book about this about 30 years ago called war and the rise of the state. It might also explain why some progressives are more inclined to be supportive of this, along with the fact that it happens to be their president at the time.

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