Slender Threads / Global Citizens / Public History

Slender Threads / Global Citizens / Public History

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Society's Slender Threads Are Fraying
Slender Threads

Society's Slender Threads Are Fraying

In 2024, how can we restore them?

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Three years ago, shortly after January 6, 2021, I made my first posts to Substack.

“Slender threads” hold societies and civilizations together, or not, I wrote. Three things we have accepted as a given for most of American history we can no longer count on:

1) Election losers always concede and pledge their support to the winner out of respect for the dem…

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