Epstein Secrets

utomobile.42 Before cars, people lived dose to other people to survive; with cars, proximity became less important—indeed, it became undesir- able. Henry Ford, who viewed urban life with as much distaste as Jefferson had, called the city a "pestiferous growth" and thought of his cars as tools for liberati

st ef- fective way for a country to cut its carbon output has been to suffer a well-timed industrial implosion, as Russia did after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991. The Kyoto benchmark year is 1990, when the smokestacks of the Soviet military- industrial complex were still blackening the skies. By the

twentieth century, when industrial capital and private philanthropy (led by the likes of Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew W. Mellon, and Henry Ford) began to endow private nonprofit research institutions at a time when there was increasing government demand for expertise on a growing range of pub

an visitors were pleased by the post-1972 developments in US-China relations, seeing them as likely to be both a source of strategic leverage against the Soviet Union and a stabilizing influence in Asian affairs. The government in Beijing was seen as preoccupied with domestic affairs, no longer opposed to the prese

ge Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Glenn Tiffert is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ezra Vogel is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University. Christopher Walker is Vice President for Studies and Analysis at the National Endow

s moment in American political history, overstating the threat of subversion from China risks causing overreactions reminiscent of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, including an anti-Chinese version of the Red Scare that would put all ethnic Chinese under a cloud of suspicion. Right now, I believe the harm we co