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Steven Poole

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Sep 2, 2026
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Aug 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Steven Poole

    Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings by Jared Diamond review – how to change the course of history - AOL (opens the original)

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    Early in this book, Jared Diamond proudly introduces “what I term ‘the Hamlet test’”, which helps decide whether prominent individuals really make a difference, or whether others might have done just as well. Among William Shakespeare’s contemporaries on the Elizabethan stage, he explains, were “Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and John Webster. But not even their best plays remotely approach in quality Hamlet and Shakespeare’s other masterpieces.” It follows, for Diamond, that Shakespeare was in

  2. Article · Aug 7, 2026 · Steven Poole

    What Happened to Liberal Democracy? by Daron Acemoglu review – how to fix the system - AOL (opens the original)

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    In 2009, the tech billionaire Peter Thiel published an essay with the portentous title The Education of a Libertarian, in which he announced: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Since the 1920s, he wrote, “the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women” had rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” an oxymoron. To be fair, Thiel still seems happy to exercise his freedom to extract money from democracies, via his co-founding

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