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Friday, March 21, 2025
How we got here and where we are going
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This article has gone up in the Boston Globe this morning. With their permission I am reproducing it here in full. The 1997 book that ...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Centralizaton and its consequences
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Back in 1960, during the first presidential election that I could really follow closely, I saw candidate Richard Nixon interviewed on Face ...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Reason, Bureaucracy, and History
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The eighteenth century has long been called the age of revolution, often without acknowledging that at least two different revolutions were...
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
The JFK assassination documents--what the Trump administration should do
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A couple of weeks ago an editor at a major newspaper contacted me--we have corresponded before, never met in person--and asked if I would l...
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Missing the forest for the tree
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The tacit alliance between Donald Trump and the mainstream media--both of which enjoy making him the center of attention--is, I think, maki...
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