Category Archives: history
The Purple Prose of Cairo
The media purred over the “credibility” that Obama enjoys in the Muslim world. If so, it is a credibility based on either cluelessness or cynicism: perhaps Muslims don’t know about Obama’s turbo-secularism, or, if they do, they just don’t care, figuring that they at least share a common enemy –Christianity. Continue reading
Reagan’s real legacy is the man himself
Any budget hotel down the road has more comfortable accommodations. Reagan, who with his wife was pilloried for having a plutocrat’s taste, in fact enjoyed a level of simplicity beyond what most vacationing Americans would accept. Continue reading
Turns out that no, he can't
As the Carter experience suggests, in presidential politics, great expectations often lead to crashing disappointments. Continue reading
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Read a Book for Black-History Month
For Black History Month, what one book on the black experience should every American read? Continue reading
The paradox of public service
by Brian Brown What if public service made you more selfish? It’s a counterintuitive notion, to be sure. President Barack Obama, after all, has promised to make public service ‘a cause of my presidency’ to help get the country back … Continue reading
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