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Imagining the Election
Tribune Media Services, July 3, 2008
by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow).
One way to envision the McCain-Obama presidential race is as a boxing match — particularly like the famous Mohammed Ali championship fights...
War & Terror with Philip Bobbitt: Chapter 4 of 5
Uncommon Knowledge, July 3, 2008
by Peter M. Robinson (Research Fellow). Philip Bobbitt (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law) is interviewed.
We tend to believe the people have more power than the government when the times are tranquil, and that the government asserts more power than the people in times of emergency...
Crusading is not the answer, but nor is pulling up the drawbridge
Guardian (UK), July 3, 2008
by Timothy Garton Ash (Senior Fellow).
Next week, a bunch of political leaders will sit around a table at the G8 summit in Toyako, Japan, contemplating the state of the world...
Down on the pharms?
Washington Post, July 3, 2008
by Henry I. Miller (Research Fellow ).
As a fresh-faced medical intern, a colleague of mine greeted a new patient with a breezy, "So what's your problem?"...
Tough California operative to lead McCain team
San Francisco Chronicle, July 2, 2008
Bill Whalen (Research Fellow) is quoted in this article.
GOP presidential candidate John McCain's decision to tap a tough California political operative and former adviser to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to head his campaign operations is being hailed by Republicans as evidence that the Arizona senator's campaign is on a new track...
'What's the Big Idea?'
Minnesota Public Radio, July 2, 2008
. Shelby Steele (Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow) is interviewed.
The opening event at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado...
A new approach on Iran?
Minnesota Public Radio, July 2, 2008
. Abbas Milani (Research Fellow) is featured.
The Bush Administration sought and Congress agreed to fund covert operations in Iran to destabilize the government there, according to a recent New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh...
War & Terror with Philip Bobbitt: Chapter 3 of 5
Uncommon Knowledge, July 2, 2008
by Peter M. Robinson (Research Fellow). Philip Bobbitt (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law) is interviewed.
During the 20th century it was important that the law and the Allied war strategy were separate...
Japan and the Future of Nuclear Disarmament
Foreign Policy In Focus, July 2, 2008
William J. Perry (Senior Fellow) and George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow) are mentioned in this article.
Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s entry in the visitors’ book at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum last month may not sound so astonishing or dramatic...
Does Patriotism Matter?
Creators Syndicate, July 2, 2008
by Thomas Sowell (Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy).
The Fourth of July is a patriotic holiday but patriotism has long been viewed with suspicion or disdain by many of the intelligentsia...
Marking Our Territory: 'Conquest' by David Day
New York Sun, July 2, 2008
by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow).
David Day is an Australian scholar heretofore known as the author of a number of engaging accounts of Australian cultural history and the continent's uneasy relationship with Britain during World War II...
Softer Tone From Iran Has Experts Guessing
New York Times, July 2, 2008
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Abbas Milani (Research Fellow) is quoted in this article.
Iranian officials on Tuesday continued their long history of befuddling Western diplomats, as two top officials sounded conciliatory notes about the prospects of eventually breaching the impasse between the West and Tehran over the country’s nuclear ambitions...
Birthday Thoughts
Education Week, July 2, 2008
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by Diane Ravitch (Senior Fellow).
Well, we have been blogging for more than a year now, and there was bound to be a screw-up sooner or later...
Come Study La Raza
National Review Online, July 2, 2008
by Liam Julian (Research Fellow).
The name of the nation’s most visible, self-defined Latino civil-rights organization, the National Council of La Raza, translates as the National Council of The Race...
More Newsweek Rehash
Works and Days, July 1, 2008
by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow).
Newsweek is running an old story of 2007 by Evan Thomas suggesting that the 300 was a sort of racist propaganda, and he thinks that it reflects the administration’s Manichean views that derive from ancient Greece/Persia faultlines...
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