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Byrne Hobart
Mar 23, 2020
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There’s a continuum of political analysis, with middle school social studies at one end and Hobbes, Machiavelli, Carl Schmitt, and Edward Luttwack at another. That continuum is defined by whether legitimacy is a premise or a conclusion. It’s generally good for kids to take the system for granted, but it’s also good for adults to understand that “the sys…

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