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In the century and a half since Adam Smith had laid out his vision of beneficent and efficient capitalism, the “invisible hand of the marketplace” had frequently been idle (as, indeed, Smith had warned it would). In 1924, even before the
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“The street gangs,” in the words of Alan Bullock, “had seized control of the resources of a great modern State, the gutter had come to power.” But—as Hitler never ceased to boast—“legally,” by an overwhelming vote of Parliament. The Germans had no one to blame but themselves.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
“The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.”
― The Collected Poems
― The Collected Poems
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
“The amendments’ “plain purpose,” he wrote, was to place under national jurisdiction “the whole subject” of citizens’ rights. But too many rights had been lost as soon as they reached “that grave of liberty, the Supreme Court of the United States.”50”
― The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
― The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Andrew’s 2025 Year in Books
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