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Remember World War I

Like most American spectators watching this slow-motion train wreck of a budget disaster, I have assumed that at the last minute the damsel would be pulled off the track of the oncoming train. Somehow, the Republicans would appreciate the stakes, a compromise (albeit on sickeningly Republican terms) would be reached, and the nation would be […]

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Terror and Liberalism

The present war, if that is the correct word, may very well be, as President Bush has observed, a war of a new kind—the “first war of the twenty-first century.” But in one important respect, the present war also appears to be—and this, too, the president has hinted at indirectly—a war of an old kind, […]

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