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Another look at Club Gitmo
More than six years into his presidency, Barack Obama still has yet to close a terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo in Cuba. Arthur Herman examines the reasons for the president’s…
Pakistan
sovereign state in South Asia
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Americans feelings in tune with reality–they feel less free
According to a new Gallop Poll, Americans feel less free on this 4th of July than they did in 2006. According to the Christian Science Monitor, reporting on the poll:…
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Hanson questions whether any remnant of the post-WWII American foreign policy consensus remains
Victor Davis Hanson argues in his latest National Review Online column that the Obama administration’s actions have marked an abrupt change after more than 60 years of relatively consistent post-World…
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Russia’s unsurprising economic challenges
Anyone who remembers UNC professor Peter Coclanis‘ 2009 presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society on challenges facing the Russian society will have an easy time believing the details…
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Hanson’s latest epithet for President Obama: Icarus-in-Chief
Victor Davis Hanson turns to Greek mythology for inspiration in his latest National Review Online column about the troubled Obama presidency. In the last two weeks, we learned that Bashar…
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Left-of-center TIME columnist chastises lefties
It’s hard to imagine that Fareed Zakaria would have written his latest TIME magazine column if George W. Bush (or any other Republican, for that matter) occupied the White House.…
Education
Sowell challenges conventional wisdom about test-score gaps
Thomas Sowell‘s latest column explores a fascinating finding from The Economist: Among the poorest students in British schools, whites tend to score lower than immigrants from Africa, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and…
Energy
What’s worse than green cronyism? Green colonialism.
What is green colonialism, you ask? It is Western elites deliberately keeping the world’s poor festering in dark, dank premodernity just to keep them from “polluting” in their climb up…
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Obama: More equal than others?
Dustin Walker muses in a Real Clear Politics column about the president’s “Orwellian” legacy. [I]f we are not approaching the totalitarian nightmare of a novel like “1984,” the revelations provide…
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Historian Johnson warns of nuclear dangers
Historian Paul Johnson devotes his latest Forbes column to the potential dangers associated with rogue states pursuing nuclear weapons. Today’s three superpowers–the U.S., Russia and China–have no conflicts of interest…
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National Review’s Williamson asks why we don’t face Boston Marathon-style bombings more often
As we focus on the facts surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing, Kevin D. Williamson reminds us with his latest National Review Online column that the United States faces very few…
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‘World’s leading liberal voice’ blasts Obama administration’s approach to secrecy on drones
Whatever you think of the Obama administration’s drone program, you have to question the secrecy surrounding it. At least that’s the stance Glenn Greenwald takes in a column for The…