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Feast of Fools by Lewis H. Lapham
Wonders Never Cease by Lewis H. Lapham
Status Check 2011: Barack Obama is not an American citizen: this meme is strong in American political culture. With the 2012 presidential...
Bonjour, Tristesse 2010: In his first speech after the midterm elections, reporters paid particular attention to Obama’s somber attitude after the Republicans...
Rest Assured 2010: Before a crowd of about seven hundred at New York’s Cooper Union, President Obama outlined his straightforward plan for...
Mandates of Heaven by Lewis H. Lapham
Gitmo, Now and Forever 2009: Word came from the Obama administration this week that many of the prisoners detained indefinitely at the American prison...
Secular Revival by Warren Breckman
On War and Being Just 2009: From President Obama’s speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. War, in one form or another, appeared with the...
Smoke and Manufactures 2009: The world's climate and energy experts are gathered this week in Copenhagen to debate the righteousness of an international...
The God in the Machine by Lewis H. Lapham
Services Rendered “Federal Government Needs Massive Hiring Binge, Study Finds,” The Washington Post, Sept. 3, 2009. The federal government needs...
Obama to California: Drop Dead "Calif. Aid Request Spurned By U.S.," The Washington Post, June 16, 2009. The Obama administration has turned back...
Fission’s Folly Remarks of President Barack Obama, Prague, Apr. 5, 2009 The existence of thousands of nuclear weapons is the...
Ink-Stained Chat “The Action Americans Need,” by Barack Obama, The Washington Post, Feb. 5, 2009. Obama’s is the first...
Ain’t No Stoic Look “Return of the Natives,” by Timothy Egan, nytimes.com, Jan. 14, 2009. So often, they are invisible, these first...
The World in Time: Edward J. Larson Discusses the Electoral Circus Edward J. Larson is University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, and author, most recently, of A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign.
My Old Alaska Home “Keeping Their Opinions to Themselves,” by Clark Hoyt, The New York Times, Oct. 18, 2008. LAST Tuesday, The...
Public Health “Many Holes in Disclosure of Nominees’ Health,” by Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., The New York Times, Oct. 20,...
The World in Time: Sean Wilentz Discusses the Age of Reagan Sean Wilentz is Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University. He is author, most recently, of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008.
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