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Thursday, July 16, 2026

U.S. Military Goes Back to the Future

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex in his " Farewell Address ." In Power & Market Mur...

Sunday, July 5, 2020

The GOP as Pushy Beggars

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That Donald Trump is a bully is obvious. His influence on the Republican Party and conservatives is also apparent. Back in late October 2016...

Sunday, August 12, 2018

The Wizard of Oz and the Anti-Intellectual Tradition

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“Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through the slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from we have univers...

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Sunday, August 5, 2018

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

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Nothing has changed in the fifty years since Richard Hofstadter chronicled the history of anti-intellectualism. The warning bell may seem m...

Sunday, July 15, 2018

After Action Report: Heartbreak Ridge

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Heartbreak Ridge is a good action story with few leadership lessons. Dissenting for the sake of the task is one of the ethical standards ...

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Why Democracy is Difficult

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If you run the Declaration of Independence through a grammar and style checker, you will find that it takes a modern college education to u...

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