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Classical liberalism, goth and cats.

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From Athens to Sparta: How Trumpism Is Driving Americaโ€™s Decline Civilizations commit suicide when they build walls against the outside world

At @theunpopulist.net by @johanknorberg.bsky.social: Unless America reverses course and rediscovers its openness and confidence, historians will mark this moment as when it followed other great civilizations down a suicidal path: open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

28.01.2026 02:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Economist: The 40 best books published so far this year:

09.06.2025 13:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Without optimism, we won't reach our next golden age The most gratifying thing about studying golden ages, like ancient Athens, Rome, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic, is that you canโ€™t help but be inspired by the re...

โ€œIn 200 years, the share of people in extreme poverty globally has been reduced from roughly 8 out of 10 to fewer than 1 out of 10. Life expectancy has shot up from 30 to 74. We have had a good run over these 200 years.โ€ โ€” @johanknorberg.bsky.social capx.co/without-opti...

21.05.2025 23:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How golden ages really startโ€”and end The greatest civilisations of the past 3,000 years were the opposite of MAGA

www.economist.com/culture/2025...

07.05.2025 08:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Incredible review of Peak Human in The Economist:

"Mr Norberg adds fresh details and provocative arguments [and] deftly punctures popular misconceptions.
Could a history book be more timely?
Americaโ€™s president will not read it, but others should."

07.05.2025 08:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Peak Human โ€“ Atlantic Books Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; ...

More info here: atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak-hu...

28.04.2025 13:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Look! They sent me a copy of my new book and itโ€™s beautiful. Perfect timing to be writing about the end of civilisations.

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ 1 May, ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 2 Sept

28.04.2025 13:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes. And collective.

03.04.2025 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mรฅtte den aldrig sluta.

03.04.2025 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Vilket mysigt omdรถme รคndรฅ. Tack.

03.04.2025 17:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The longest suicide note in economic history.

02.04.2025 21:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 78 ๐Ÿ” 19 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Iโ€™m deeply honored and truly overwhelmed to be this yearโ€™s recipient of the Hayek Book Prize โ€” and to now find myself in the company of such distinguished thinkers as Thomas Sowell, Matt Ridley and Deirdre McCloskey.

02.04.2025 07:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Det charmigaste med ChatGPT รคr att den envisas med att hitta pรฅ bรคttre namn pรฅ mina gamla bรถcker. Vissa tror att AI รคr en frรคlsare, andra att den รคr en fรถrgรถrare. I sjรคlva verket รคr den ett busfrรถ.

22.11.2023 08:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nรคstan som gamla tider, ju.

20.09.2023 13:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Kul att vara hรคr!

20.09.2023 13:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0