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Historian Barbara Tuchman on Why Modern Politicians Should Be More Like...
Barbara Tuchman was one of America’s best-known historians. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice. At the root of our contemporary predicament, she concluded before her death in 1989, was the absence of a...
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Crossing the border from the United States into Canada is a pretty easy affair, says Northrop Frye, one of the world’s foremost literary critics; there are no walls, no barbed-wire fences, no lookout...
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Social Democracy Is 100-Percent American
For some time we have feared that Republican politicians were losing their minds. Now it seems we must worry, as well, that Democratic politicians are losing their memories. Appearing late last week on...
View ArticleLet Them Call Us Rebels
In December 1776, during the darkest days of the Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote the first of his American Crisis papers. Following devastating defeats by British forces in Brooklyn and Manhattan,...
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One of America’s best-known historians talks about changes in the American political landscape. Continue reading The post Historian Barbara Tuchman on Why Modern Politicians Should Be More Like George...
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The literary critic on our common and uncommon mythologies, cultural differences, and Canada’s struggle to establish a separate identity beyond being America’s neighbor. Continue reading The post...
View ArticleSocial Democracy Is 100-Percent American
On this Fourth of July weekend, anyone who thinks social democracy is un-American doesn't know their history. Continue reading The post Social Democracy Is 100-Percent American appeared first on...
View ArticleLet Them Call Us Rebels
In December 1776, during the darkest days of the Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote the first of his American Crisis papers. Following devastating defeats by British forces in Brooklyn and Manhattan,...
View ArticleThe Die is Cast. Can the Republic Be Saved?
Demagogue that he is and that he’s toyed with becoming since well before he ran for president, Donald Trump used his June 2 rant against looting and thuggery after George Floyd’s murder to bang the...
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