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No Free Speech at Mr. Jefferson’s Library

George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury Would Have Recognized Morris …

Republicans and Christians: A Marriage of Convenience?

From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American …

Is the National Security Complex Too Big to Fail?

From TomDispatch: Bailing out America’s wars By Tom Engelhardt | October 20, 2011 Think …

Electing a New Ireland

Eire’s presidential contest is more than a political melee—it’s a referendum on …

Freedom Isn’t Free at the State Department

From TomDispatch: In post-legal America, spreading public information is a crime. By Peter …

Is Federalism Good for Fetuses?

By James Banks This year’s CPAC was probably as notable for the …

Limits of Libertarianism (II)

“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!” Goldwater famously proclaimed. In …

The Limits of Libertarianism

Libertarianism is the new Trotskyism, argues Christopher Beam in a recent New …

Rhetoric Had Little Role in Giffords Shooting

I am not a Sarah Palin apologist, but casting any blame on …

Groping in the Dark

In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success …

Haley Barbour, Race, and Politics

Perhaps the silliest narrative to spring up during Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign …

Wikileaks: Self-Defeating Transparency?

In late 2006, an unknown Julian Assange posted two seemingly innocuous essays …

Another Pyrrhic Victory

By Kenneth R. Rice II But what do we mean by the …

The 2010 Elections: Huh?

Well, the midterm elections are over and the GOP is feeling revitalized. …

Rising East, Setting West

Via TomDispatch.com comes this essay on Asian powers increasingly declaring their independence …

Alexander Cockburn

Unlike the French or the Italians, for whom conspiracies are an integral …

John LeBoutillier

The POW issue was born during the Watergate scandal. Richard Nixon and …

Peter Richardson

How could Sydney Schanberg’s story on Vietnam POWs appear in The Nation …

Gareth Porter

Sydney Schanberg has an illustrious journalistic career going back to the Vietnam …

Lamenting the Human Predicament

The Roger Scruton Reader, edited by Mark Dooley, Continuum, 232 pages

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