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The 5000 Year Leap: Why America’s Founding Principles Transformed the World & Why They Still Matter

The 5000 Year Leap: Why America’s Founding Principles Transformed the World & Why They Still Matter

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...
Democracy In America: Tocqueville’s Assessment of Why Freedom Thrived Then and Struggles Now

Democracy In America: Tocqueville’s Assessment of Why Freedom Thrived Then and Struggles Now

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...
Hedonic Illusions: Why Everything Costs More but the Government Claims It Doesn’t

Hedonic Illusions: Why Everything Costs More but the Government Claims It Doesn’t

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...
Moral Man and Immoral Society: Why Good People Build Unjust Systems

Moral Man and Immoral Society: Why Good People Build Unjust Systems

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,...
Supreme Damage: How Nine Politically Connected Lawyers In Robes Continue to Rewrite the Constitution

Supreme Damage: How Nine Politically Connected Lawyers In Robes Continue to Rewrite the Constitution

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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