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Even after the slaughter of World War I, there could still be in 1937 an excessive faith in human progress: Today, of course, we hardly know the meaning of the word "fear" in its medieval sense. Anesthetics have removed the fear of physical pain. Logic and intelligence have
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The controversy over whether Howard Dean is another George McGovern and the endorsement of Joe Lieberman by The New Republic has inspired me to dig up some of what The New Republic wrote in 1971 and 1972 about George McGovern's presidential campaign. Looking at contemporary writings can be
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Josh Marshall excerpts an interview with Peter Drucker, who argues that India will be a greater economic power in the future than China. I've long believed that India rather than China would be the nation to eventually supplant the United States as the world's leading superpower,
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For a glance at how the Great Depression affected the popular view of Wall Street, see how the title of this book changed: The 1930 title: Hetty Green, a woman who loved money. The 1936 title: The witch of Wall Street, Hetty Green. Same book: The 1936 edition was a
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for sale The Worldly Philosophers
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"The choice of Athens as capital [of newly independent Greece], a town dominated by the imposing ruins of the Parthenon and with its associations with the glories of the Periclean age but in the early 1830s little more than a dusty village, symbolised the cultural orientation of the new
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An odd quirk of history: A Churchill led England in 1704 at the beginning of her days of glory, and a Churchill led her in 1945 at their end. (G. K. Chesterton once made a similar remark, though he meant it disparagingly, about the Cecil family.
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At first glance, it is puzzling that Jacques Chirac, the major French conservative of our time, led the effort (and went to such an extreme) to oppose the American government's decision to occupy Iraq. But as the founder of the Rassemblement Pour la République, Chirac is, above all,
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In my heart, I hope that today's celebration in Baghdad is justified by future events, and that Iraqis will soon enjoy a stable government that presides peacefully over a free people. In my mind, I doubt as Edmund Burke did: [...] I cannot stand forward and give praise or