Aaron Dentel-Post

I write deep features on difficult topics, and turn common misconceptions upside down.

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A Thanksgiving for American Democracy

This past winter was the 375th anniversary of my family’s first run-in with an American authoritarian, the Director-General Willem Kieft of the New Netherland Colony. As a consequence of the aptly named Kieft’s War, they huddled in makeshift straw huts inside Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, and watched as all their worldly possessions burned to the ground. “Refugees in their own homeland now, they huddled in the open courtyard, exposed, at the mercy of their several gods, wondering what wou
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Outcompeting Capitalism –

A business model has been quietly outcompeting privately owned companies for nearly a century, sticking to the shadows like mammals in the age of the dinosaurs. It’s a business model so successful that it’s often used to rescue privately owned companies on the brink. But it’s also so transformative that it’s helped change the paradigm of politics and economics in Scandinavia, France, New Zealand, and other countries. It’s been written about by Forbes, Reuters, The Atlantic, Huffington Post...
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