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We have received many requests for an electronic version of our upcoming book America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why America’s Greatest Days Are Yet to Come. We are happy to announce that there will be an electronic … Continue reading →

Mr. Bennett and Mr. Lotus received their copies of America 3.0 yesterday. It is was strange, in a good way, to hold the thing in my hand, after all this effort. I went back and looked at some old emails, … Continue reading →

In America 3.0 we discuss the origins of the common law, and how it was well-suited to adapt inductively to changing conditions, in contrast to the more top-down Roman law that predominated on the Continent. This recent post on the … Continue reading →

This will be cover on America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why America’s Greatest Days Are Yet to Come, which will be published on May 28, 2013. Jim Bennett and I went back and forth with our publisher, … Continue reading →

We are thrilled to announce: (1) Glenn Reynolds, a/k/a Instapundit has written a foreword for America 3.0. (2) Michael Barone, Jonah Goldberg and John O’ Sullivan have provided blurbs for the book. We are grateful for the kind words and … Continue reading →

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that the cause triumphs. François Guizot Guizot is an under-appreciated … Continue reading →

[B]y a singular chance, the expansion of that small society from Elizabethan times onward became increasingly identified with the central movement in the history of the modern world. No mere book can hope to do justice to the theme: it … Continue reading →

The Perpetual Difficulty of Opposing A Corrupt Political System And it is certainly plain that the man who gains by maintaining corruption is likely to make great habitual efforts to keep up a corrupt system, while the man who opposes … Continue reading →

Few people have the leisure to undertake a systematic and thorough study of history, but every one ought to find time to learn theprincipal features of the governments under which we live, and to getsome inkling of the way in … Continue reading →

These findings are consistent with the claims that Jim Bennett and I make in our upcoming book America 3.0. Americans stand out relative to Westerners on phenomena that are associated with independent self‐concepts and individualism. A number of analyses, using … Continue reading →