For those who missed it, my latest (at Persuasion), in which I argue that the exhaustion of Enlightenment ideology leaves liberal democracy teetering over the abyss...
🚨 JUST IN: In a bombshell speech, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just called the EUROPEAN UNION A COMPLETE FAILURE in front of global elites by stating, "Germany and Europe have wasted incredible potential. We have become the world champion of over-regulation and zero growth."
DC fined me $75 for littering after I put some things out for a bulk trash pickup my neighbor had arranged. The city actually collected the trash. As far as I know, I did nothing wrong.
Still, I was perfectly happy to pay $75 rather than waste time fighting it. But the citation
“Actually, in America, the reading of books is up. Sales of print books have increased nearly twenty-five per cent from a decade ago. The number of independent bookstores in the United States has climbed steeply since 2009, with a seventy-per-cent increase since 2020.”
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