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Now let’s blend historical points of view with present day realities. What would General William T Sherman think about the state of our nation today?

Does history repeat itself? 🔗💡 In the 1990s two scholars proposed that the broad strokes of Western history can be understood as a series of cycles switching between states of stability and turmoil and spanning roughly 80 years each. According to their theory, we may be heading towards the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new one – meaning that we will enter a period of crisis and global re-ordering. The ‘Fourth Turning’ theory of history rests on a series of shaky assumptions, but is there some truth to it? Read the full article 👉 https://lnkd.in/ek7jsWPB The article was written by our CEO Daria (Dasha) Krivonos and was first published in FARSIGHT - our quarterly publication on the future(s). August Leo Liljenberg - Casper Skovgaard Petersen.

What are the sources and implications of the rise of right wing politics in the West in the late 20th century? Prof. Shapiro discusses how the collapse of communism was (maybe counterintuitively) beneficial to the right, two logics of distributive politics, the median voter theorem, and how interests, institutions and ideals influence individual's ideas of fairness in politics. He then discusses the implications of the rise of the right in two-party versus multiparty systems.

Since Lee's Lieutenants was published 25 years ago, the Lee Kuan Yew grand narrative has become even more prominent. I discuss with Lam Peng Er and Kevin Tan two aspects of his legacy: what should the Founders' Memorial be about, and what to do with the Oxley Road basement? Welcome to The Scholar Chronicles. I am Dr Loh KS, a historian, and I ask scholars to share their stories from the field. These stories shed light on the research we do, the challenges we face and the relationship between scholarship and society. Do like the video and subscribe for future episodes. This will help the channel a lot. https://lnkd.in/gFQbS_Tp

The roundtable includes a discussion of WW II and Cold War history, recent trends in historical research, and contemporary challenges in a dangerous world. https://lnkd.in/edt2vfsE

Generations Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading. William Strauss and Neil Howe posit the history of America as a succession of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and encompassing every-one through the children of today. Their bold theory is that each generation belongs to one of four types, and that these types repeat sequentially in a fixed pattern. The vision of Generations allows us to plot a recurring cycle in American history -- a cycle of spiritual awakenings and secular crises -- from the founding colonists through the present day and well into this millenium. Generations is at once a refreshing historical narrative and a thrilling intuitive leap that reorders not only our history books but also our expectations for the twenty-first century. https://lnkd.in/gmiu6EGr

The next three days are going to be intense! "Defending Democracy from the Center" is the theme of the three-day event that Christoph Giesa and I will be leading at the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung As an optimist, I firmly believe we must counter the doom and gloom narratives of populists. Extremists thrive on the frustrations and insecurities of certain segments of the population, understanding their motivational, epistemic, and relational needs better than many policy experts and strategists in the center. How do we compete with illiberal opponents who favor fiction over facts, fear over hope, a nostalgic past and a utopian future over the present, and pathos and ethos over logos? Let's turn to some of the smartest minds out there and see what they've written in their books. In preparation, I’ve selected some of my favorite books to provide participants with a bit of reading material during breaks. Which 5 books would you have chosen? 📚🤓

Book Talk: The Loom of Time & The Tragic Mind Robert D. Kaplan is one of the most distinguished of all contemporary US commentators on the present world. Like Hemingway, “he honestly and undauntedly reproduces the genuine features of the hard countenance of the age”. He joins Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute to discuss his two most recent books: The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China (2023) examines the Greater Middle East against the background of history and especially imperial history. It appeals to the US establishment to approach the region in a spirit of Realism, and without the illusions and ungrounded optimism that has often plagued American policy in the past. The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate and the Burden of Power (2023) draws on the literature of tragedy to illuminate the harsh choices facing policymakers today; choices that rarely involve a clear-cut opposition of good and evi…

It’s well worth taking the time to read this informative article by Frances A. Chiu, Ph.D., to better understand where we were and where we are today. Don’t be ignorant of #history.

The criitical historic method of Post Modern Historic Deconstruction is the most compelling platform supporting MAGA propaganda, Post Modern Historic Deconstruction represents the rejection of Hegel by anti-war campus radicals after the occuption of Columbia University in 1968 as a method to elevate the civic derilection of draft dodgers, both liberal and conservative, to the epitome of moral courage, intellectual honesty and civic virtue within the ethical context of Ayn Rand's Virtue of Selfishness. The rationalization for the rejection of Hegel is actually the rejection of Clausewitz, which represents the paradox of brute force as a rational instrument of State especially as it was being employed in Vietnam to turn back the criminal invasion of the Republic of Vietnam by the godless commie cocksuckers of Hanoi, The existentially unachored nature of Post Modern Historic Deconstruction allowed the anti-war movement to blame the conflict on Aermican imperialism as the actual source of their displeasure, the military draft of the Johnsom Administration required to confront the actural Communist imperialism that proved successful, in the end, Since then, Post Modern Historic Deconstruction has become the ethical basis of the Liberal campus Politically Correct cancel culture, which has been successfully hijacked by Newt Gingrich and Project 2025 to advance their agenda of constitutional sabotage and the political coup attempt of Janaury 6. Complete text at https://lnkd.in/eVSB-DBQ The extent of the moral confusion that is generated by Post Modern Historic Deconstructiion is that Barack and Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Valerie Jarrett are captive of the business model of the University of Chicago simply from residence in Chicago. The University of Chicago has the same authoritarian academic culture as the University of Berlin in 1938 and the Public Choice school is, like the Federalist Society, a mechanism of the Fascist economic objectives of Porject 2025, which is to say, the constant sabotage of the neo-Liberalism of the New Deal/Eisehnower's 1956 Presidential Platform, Nixon/Mohnihan Affirmative Action and Reagan's New Federalism leading to the Green New Deal of the Starchip Capitalism necessary to sustain a lunar colony as imagined in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Supply Siee Economis is a Marxist construct identical to Soviet Marxism. Post modern Historic Deconstruciton is a is a method of revisionist inquiry that rests squarely on the mechanisms of the dialectical Materialism of Marxism, Bill Contion and Biden/Harris have been the only fitful defenders of Hegelism democratic structures. And Bill Clinton produced a balance budge in spite of the Fascist subversion of Newt Gingrich.