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Saturday, April 5, 2025

Lessons of History: Vietnam and the Loss of American Goodness

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Bamboo hut in flames, Ben Suc, Vietnam (January 1967) I was eight years old in 1967, living an insular, middle-class existence in the suburb...
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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Robert Caro’s Epic Tale of Robert Moses and the Love of Power Remains a Tour De Force

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Bob Moses had learned what was needed to make dreams become realities. He had learned the lesson of power. – Robert Caro, The Power Broker F...
Monday, March 10, 2025

From McCarthy to Trump: The Right's 75-Year Crusade Against Government

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Ever since I participated in the Economic Policy Semester at American University in the Fall of 1980, I have been interested in the role of ...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Remembering Gene Hackman

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A man who comes to a place like this, either he's running away from something, or he has nowhere else to go. – Myra Fleener (Barbara Her...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

The Coming of Spring

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       I know, of course, that spring ball games in Florida and Arizona are meant to be forgotten. March standings and averages are written ...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

In Defense of Campus Speech and the Need to Build Bridges

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One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job at a global investigations firm over the past eighteen years has been working with colleges and ...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Trump's Assault on the Federal Government Threatens All of US

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Federal Safety Inspector for the Food Safety and Inspection Service I devoted half my career as a lawyer for the Department of Justice, serv...
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