Two by Walter Russell Mead
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“The Forgotten Look of Prosperity“.
This is what economic growth looks like.: It is sudden, disruptive, often inconvenient.: It messes with the status quo.: New stuff gets built and not all of it looks like the Cloisters.: All kinds of rough and hungry men flock to it; they sometimes misbehave.: They spit on the ground, say unpleasant things about women, and generally fail to meet the behavioral standards of the Upper West Side.
Decline is so much more: decorous.: Prairie towns slowly wither on the vine; the young people quietly leave, the stores gradually empty and close.: Reporters from the: Times: write haunting and moving stories about the gentle, drifting sadness of it all. Novelists in creative writing programs can write delicate tales of rural decline; filmmakers can make understated little films about the lost hope and vanished promise of the American dream.
“Guns Better Investment Than Gold?” (Via Instapundit.)
. . . when poets buy guns, tourist season is over.: They are buying them now in Damascus; something wicked this way comes.
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