The Afterword

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  • When Power Wants Glory

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    Peter
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    What makes you nervous? What makes me nervous is the old human hunger for power, now armed with new tools. We are living in a time when authoritarian rulers reach for glory without regard for the human cost. Sometimes they collude. Sometimes they turn on one another. Either way, ordinary people are crushed beneath their…

  • On What Makes Me Nervous

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    Peter
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    It’s not fear that shaped me, not really, not in the way some people mean it. I was never afraid of change, not even as a kid, though I didn’t chase it either. I’ve stayed where things mattered. By the time I’m done, I’ll have worked in four places over forty years, and that sounds…