41. Separate but equal
Reconstruction ended state by former Confederate state.
A User's Guide to History
Everybody uses history, some better than others. This User's Guide offers suggestions on how the past shapes the present, and how the present shapes what we think about the past.
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No shortcut to the millennium
Settle for better
AI goes to war
So we don’t have to?
No balm in Gilead
Sh!
The romance of the forest
Per Washington Irving
40. Money matters
Wars have stretched the Constitution, which usually shrank back—but not all the way—after the war ended.
Justifying war
Governments have been justifying war as long as there have been governments.
A Stoic on time
Seneca and Nero
Questions, questions
Is an open mind ever too open?
Slaughter on Eighth Avenue
Irish troubles in America
39. Two questions answered
Besides producing three constitutional amendments, the half decade after the Civil War yielded answers to two important constitutional questions.
Who owns your job?
Where do you live?