Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View America is a tune. It must be sung together.– Gerald Stanley Lee FAVORITE WATCH OF THE WEEK What Makes America ExceptionalBari Weiss and Akhil…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.– George Washington FAVORITE READS OF THE WEEK You’re NOT…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View If you need 10 of something, make 30. Then pick the best.– Rick Rubin on creating anything great FAVORITE READS OF THE WEEK Juneteenth…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Democracy and discord are natural.– George Friedman FAVORITE READ OF THE WEEK The Collapse of the Knowledge SystemTed Gioia explains the step change we’re…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.– Steve Prefontaine FAVORITE READS OF THE WEEK Has DEI destroyed our institutional…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.– Agnes Repplier FAVORITE READS OF THE WEEK AI White-collar…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View The U.S. healthcare industrial complex is bigger than the entire German economy.– Scott Galloway FAVORITE READS OF THE WEEK Calvin Coolidge’s 1923 Memorial Day…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View The larger and more complex any system gets, the more systemic risk grows.– Yours Truly FAVORITE READS OF THE WEEK Trump’s Three Steps to…