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Why Obama stumbled

by Edwin Meese IIIvia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, November 8, 2010

Two years ago, Americans witnessed what pundits then confidently called a generational liberal ascendancy. In their minds, the ideas of the right had been tried and found wanting.

An Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction Agenda for Congress and the President

by Gary S. Beckervia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, November 8, 2010

In a wide-ranging interview in the Wall Street Journal published on March 27, 2010 I indicated that the American people were unhappy with the state of the economy, wanted greater economic growth and more limited government, and that they would vote that way in November.

Where is the outrage?

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, November 8, 2010

On October 25, 2003, Russia’s path to a totalitarian kleptocracy was cemented with the arrest of Russia’s wealthiest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, at Novosibirsk Airport.

Empirical Questions About the Anticipation Effects of QE2

by John B. Taylorvia Advancing a Free Society
Saturday, November 6, 2010

No doubt there will be many empirical studies evaluating the impact of the Fed’s November 3 decision to begin another dose of quantitative easing (QE2).

Water Woes

by Gary D. Libecapvia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, November 5, 2010

It goes without saying that modern civilization turns on the availability of clean, fresh water at reasonable cost. So it is not surprising that in the semi-arid American west, complex institutions evolved to determine who got access.

A Historian’s Perspective on Obama

by Morton Kellervia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, November 5, 2010

What can be said, at this midterm point, of the Obama administration’s place in the larger context of American political history?

The Thinker

by Peter Berkowitzvia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, November 5, 2010

Review of Reading Obama, by James T. Kloppenberg (Princeton, 302 pages, $24.95)

A Tattered Special Relationship

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, November 5, 2010

Barack Obama’s visit to India, starting Saturday, may offer him some small respite from the drubbing that has made this week the nadir of his political life; but if he’s looking (a la Elizabeth Gilbert/Julia Roberts) for some Eastern salve for his battered soul, he isn’t going

Gitmo Recidivism and Innocence

by Benjamin Wittesvia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, November 5, 2010

I certainly agree with Adam Serwer’s point in this post that it will be mindless and destructive if Republicans really

We feel the absence of Germany's shoulder at the European wheel

by Timothy Garton Ashvia Advancing a Free Society
Thursday, November 4, 2010

'Zweimal Hitler bitte," I requested at the ticket desk for the Hitler exhibition at the German Historical Museum, meaning "two tickets please" but saying literally (and, I confess, as a little experiment) "t

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