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Friday, September 25, 2015
The Flowering of McCarthyism
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In February of 1950, at a Lincoln Day dinner in Wheeling, West Virginia, a little known first-term Senator, Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, an...
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Friday, September 18, 2015
The other Walter White
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The name of Walter White is now a household word in 21st-century America thanks to Vince Gilligan, the creator of the extraordinary tv serie...
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
Hopeless policies over 500 years
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I spent the 1980s teaching at Carnegie Mellon and writing two books, my second and third. The second book was relatively short: an analysis ...
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Thursday, September 03, 2015
Up from Slavery
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During the last couple of months I have been delving into black American history, reading two autobiographies of men who for long periods ra...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
The Republicans receive their reward--the US pays the price
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For the past 34 years, the Republican Party has waged an unending propaganda war upon our political system and the men and women who try to ...
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