Sovereignty, Rent, and the Futures of the Dollar For nearly a century, the United States has operated under a unique global dispensation: the “exorbitant privilege” of the dollar. This system allowed the U.S. to consume the world’s goods while the world, in turn, subsidized the American standard of living by holding those dollars as a …
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Young Goodman Brown and the Epstein Files
From Revelation to Revolution The story of “Young Goodman Brown” (1835) by Nathaniel Hawthorne follows a pious young man in Salem who secretly follows his respected neighbors into the forest at night, where he witnesses them, including his own wife Faith, gathered in a demonic ritual. The minister, the deacon, the virtuous elderly women are …
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