by Greg Stuessel | Nov 11, 2025 | The Deep Dive
The Five Thousand Year Leap boldly claims that America’s founding unleashed a revolutionary 5,000-year advance in human freedom, technology, and prosperity after millennia of stagnation—from ancient Babylon’s stick plows and bloodletting medicine to...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 10, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1830s) offers a brilliant outsider’s dissection of the young United States, probing how equality and liberty coexist without descending into Europe’s revolutionary chaos. Tocqueville marvels at America’s...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 9, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Hedonic Illusions: How Quality Adjustments Distort U.S. Inflation Data exposes the disconnect between Americans’ lived experience of rising costs and the tame inflation reported by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), arguing that hedonic adjustments—factoring in...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 8, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932) by Reinhold Niebuhr delivers a stark, realistic critique of why individual morality fails to scale to groups amid the Great Depression and rising fascism. Niebuhr argues that individuals possess self-transcendence—sympathy,...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 7, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Supreme Damage by Thurman Leonard Smith exposes how the U.S. Supreme Court has morphed from a passive interpreter of law into a policy-making super-legislature, overriding elected representatives and eroding representative self-government. Smith contrasts this with...
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