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Voices In Time

c. 771 | Gaul

No Child Left Behind

Charlemagne’s education policy.More

Voices In Time

2000 | Borneo

Closing Arguments

In politics as in nature, the snake always eats the rat.More

Voices In Time

c. 328 BC | Zariaspa

Democratic Protocol

Remember Alexander, thou art mortal.More

Voices In Time

c. 1673 | England

Politically Incorrect

A satire on the king secures John Wilmot’s exile.More

Voices In Time

1910 | New York City

Wherein Man Has Failed

The fetish of women’s suffrage.More

Voices In Time

1776 | Philadelphia

Security Measures

“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.”More

Voices In Time

1918 | Munich

Unbroken Spirit

Max Weber on the necessity of heroes in politics.More

Voices In Time

1842 | Baltimore

The Wrong Side of the Atlantic

Charles Dickens disenchanted with America.More

Voices In Time

c. 1804 | Missouri

Father Knows Best

Black Hawk pinpoints the origin of his people’s difficulties.More

Voices In Time

1848 | Seneca Falls, NY

It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World

Elizabeth Cady Stanton protests the subjection of women.More

Voices In Time

1789 | New York City

To Whom It May Concern

The naming of the president.More

Voices In Time

1959 | Moscow

If You Can’t Stand the Heat

Nixon and Khrushchev’s kitchen debate.More

Voices In Time

1969 | Washington, DC

Taking Action

Shirley Chisholm cracks the glass ceiling.More

Voices In Time

1917 | Petrograd

All Power to the People

The Bolsheviks seize the Winter Palace.More

Voices In Time

411 BC | Athens

Cleaning House

One woman’s attempt to end the Peloponnesian War.More

Voices In Time

c. 1930 | New York City

In the Spotlight

Ralph Ellison loses himself in the heat of the moment.More

Voices In Time

c. 1745 | La Brède

Point of Order

Montesquieu on the necessity of virtue.More

Voices In Time

2010 | Washington, DC

Corporations Are People Too

Anthony Kennedy on the rights of citizens.More

Voices In Time

2011 | Lima

Introducing the Candidates

Daniel Alarcón covers the election in cell block seven.More

Voices In Time

1819 | Florence

Public Service Announcement

Percy Bysshe Shelley rages against the machine.More

Voices In Time

c. 1925 | China

Pump Up the Volume

Sun Yat-Sen’s plan for China.More

Voices In Time

c. 525 | Denmark

Words to the Wise

Beowulf receives a lesson in kingship.More

Voices In Time

1849 | Concord, MA

Declining the Honor

Henry David Thoreau quietly declares war with the state.More

Voices In Time

1787 | Mount Vernon

Art of the Possible

George Washington finds the constitution to be perfectly satisfactory.More

Voices In Time

1973 | Tehran

A Dictator’s Folly

The decline and fall of the last Shah.More

Voices In Time

427 BC | Athens

Do the Right Thing

Athens debates vengeance and mercy.More

Voices In Time

1812 | United States

Remembrances of a Republic Past

Adams and Jefferson reflect on their lives in politics.More

Voices In Time

1507 | Urbino

Camera Ready

“Practice in all things a certain nonchalance.”More

Voices In Time

522 BC | Persia

Voting for Monarchy

Darius wins a one-horse race.More

Voices In Time

1492 | Granada

Purifying the Body Politic

Ferdinand and Isabella call for the expulsion of Spanish Jews.More

Voices In Time

1933 | Moscow

Portrait of a Dictator

Osip Mandelstam’s epigram for Stalin.More

Voices In Time

1526 | Agra

Taste Test

Nobody messes with Babur and gets away with it.More

Voices In Time

1790 | London

Freedom Isn’t Free

For Edmund Burke, politics is an inexact science.More

Voices In Time

c. 300 BC | India

Covert Affairs

Realpolitik in ancient India.More

Voices In Time

1858 | Ottawa, IL

Different Constitutions

Stephen Douglas argues for a government of white men, by white men, and for white men.More

Voices In Time

c. 330 BC | Athens

True to Form

Aristotle defines the types of government.More

Voices In Time

1775 | Braintree, MA

Desolation Row

Abigail Adams lost in a labyrinth of perplexities.More

Voices In Time

1876 | Essex

The Force of One’s Convictions

Thinking and politics often don’t mix.More

Voices In Time

1879 | Hartford, CT

Campaign Promises

Mark Twain announces his candidacy.More

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