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Going through your substack chronologically makes me think that BAP has a lot in common with a young future Progressive Theodore Roosevelt. TR thought that the Gilded Age was effeminate and he boxed at Harvard. He preached a later version of Muscular Christianity; a concept that came out of the cholera outbreaks in 1840s London.

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I think that I was assigned Pedagogy of the Oppressed in College during the 1990s. It might've been an English class instead of a Latin American poli sci one. I don't recall the book. I remember Rigoberta Menchu more. I think that I asked the teaching assistant about Simon Bolivar and he'd never heard of him. I already did a four year stretch with Uncle Sam, so I think that I was older than the TA

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I saw the word "praxis" and it made me think of praxeology. I must be in an Austrian mood today.

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