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The Awkward Business of Not Being an Empire Anymore
There is an awkward conversation the West has been avoiding for some time. It concerns a rather unfortunate development: the empire is ending, the colonies are no longer interested in being colonies, and the inhabitants of the imperial center are beginning to discover that maintaining an extraordinarily comfortable civilization becomes considerably more complicated when the rest of the world stops contributing to the arrangement against its will. Naturally, instead of discussing this predicament, we have decided to argue about gender-neutral bathrooms, campus drama and which books deserve a…
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