History is not a science — it doesn’t predict the future, or “repeat itself.” But studying history does develop critical thinking and other great skills. It shouldn’t be minimized!
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Bureaucracy Is (or Should Be) Your Friend
Hobbes to Weber to Trotsky … and Beyond? Over the last few decades in America, and perhaps elsewhere, “bureaucracy” and “bureaucrat” have taken on a pejorative connotation. Why is that? The basic idea of the word (from the French for, literally, a desk) is to describe organizational structures which serve the interests of a leader.Continue reading “Bureaucracy Is (or Should Be) Your Friend”
Warp and Woof 