A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as their government. In a democracy it would be your government.

Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now exists, perhaps within a window of 50-100,000 years ago, a flick of an eye in evolutionary time.

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.