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Is a Grand Strategy for America Even Possible?

Fall 2014 produced a bumper crop of books from retired four-star flag officers: James Stavridis’s The Accidental Admiral, Wesley Clark’s Don’t Wait for the Next War, and Tony Zinni’s Before the First...

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Meat Puppets

Last September, the Annals of Internal Medicine published a remarkable study on the comparative health benefits of low-fat versus low-carbohydrate diets. Conducted at Tulane University with funding...

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Corporate Law’s Original Sin

The public be damned,” railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt snorted at a reporter in 1882. The impertinent scribe had asked whether Vanderbilt ran his railroads with an eye toward public benefit....

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Let Us Now Praise Corporate Persons

The American left is notoriously fractious. But one belief that unites more than most is this: corporations are not people. “Corporations are people, my friend,” said Mitt Romney in 2012, and...

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Why a Second Progressive Era Is Emerging- and How Not to Blow It

America is in the midst of a crisis that needs no introduction. Ideological warfare and policy paralysis in Washington. Declining economic well-being among the mass of Americans combined with...

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Tilting at Windmills

Frame of reverence If you went into homes up in the hollows of Charlie Peters’s West Virginia and elsewhere in the decades following World War II, you could often find photographs of FDR. The same was...

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Three Simple Fixes That Could Save Pro Football

On the afternoon of November 25, 1905, a sophomore on the Union College football team named Harold Moore plunged headlong into New York University’s offensive wedge in an effort to “buck the line” and...

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Talk of the Toons

A selection of political cartoons from the past few weeks. Credit: Credit: Credit: Credit: Credit: The post Talk of the Toons appeared first on Washington Monthly.

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The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Government

In 1985, Harvard University hosted a conference celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of political scientist Louis Hartz’s The Liberal Tradition in America. In that classic book,...

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A Thief, a Dirty Politician, and a Suicide Bomber Walk Into a Bar …

It is easy to think of bad things going together, and of bad people doing multiple types of bad things. Sometimes such patterns are real and not just a matter of cognitive consistency. It is a reality...

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Is a Grand Strategy for America Even Possible?

Fall 2014 produced a bumper crop of books from retired four-star flag officers: James Stavridis’s The Accidental Admiral, Wesley Clark’s Don’t Wait for the Next War, and Tony Zinni’s Before the First...

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Meat Puppets

Last September, the Annals of Internal Medicine published a remarkable study on the comparative health benefits of low-fat versus low-carbohydrate diets. Conducted at Tulane University with funding...

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Corporate Law’s Original Sin

The public be damned,” railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt snorted at a reporter in 1882. The impertinent scribe had asked whether Vanderbilt ran his railroads with an eye toward public benefit....

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Let Us Now Praise Corporate Persons

The American left is notoriously fractious. But one belief that unites more than most is this: corporations are not people. “Corporations are people, my friend,” said Mitt Romney in 2012, and...

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Why a Second Progressive Era Is Emerging- and How Not to Blow It

America is in the midst of a crisis that needs no introduction. Ideological warfare and policy paralysis in Washington. Declining economic well-being among the mass of Americans combined with...

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Tilting at Windmills

Frame of reverence If you went into homes up in the hollows of Charlie Peters’s West Virginia and elsewhere in the decades following World War II, you could often find photographs of FDR. The same was...

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Three Simple Fixes That Could Save Pro Football

On the afternoon of November 25, 1905, a sophomore on the Union College football team named Harold Moore plunged headlong into New York University’s offensive wedge in an effort to “buck the line” and...

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Talk of the Toons

A selection of political cartoons from the past few weeks. Credit: Credit: Credit: Credit: Credit: The post Talk of the Toons appeared first on Washington Monthly.

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The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Government

In 1985, Harvard University hosted a conference celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of political scientist Louis Hartz’s The Liberal Tradition in America. In that classic book,...

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SCOTUS Heads Toward the Cliff

What is the difference between judicial conservatives and judicial libertarians? You will not hear many libertarians protest the Roberts Court’s recent trend to give corporations First Amendment...

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