Three Things We can Do Now as the US Empire Ends

08/18/2026 Notes in the Margin Karen Kwiatkowski

“The state has proven incapable of leading us wisely, and our growing recognition of that cold fact is amazingly liberating.”

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"The state has proven incapable of leading us wisely, and our growing recognition of that cold fact is amazingly liberating."

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Three Things We can Do Now as the US Empire Ends