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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
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Is the French Revolution Our New Model?
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Friedman to the Rescue

by Charles G. Palm featuring Milton Friedmanvia Hoover Digest
Monday, October 23, 2017

Milton Friedman’s ideas were a beacon that guided America—and much of the world—toward economic freedom. We need to keep that light burning. 

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Lenin’s Ghost

by Miles Maochun Yuvia Hoover Digest
Monday, October 23, 2017

Russia and China once contested each other’s claims to socialist purity. Now they vie for this distinction: who will challenge America? 

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Rand Meets Reds

by Jennifer Burnsvia Hoover Digest
Monday, October 23, 2017

The Bolshevik Revolution triggered ideological warfare, too, with Ayn Rand among the fiercest warriors. Her foe: American intellectuals. 

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Revolutionary Century

by Svetlana Suveică , Sergiu Musteață interview with Norman M. Naimarkvia Hoover Digest
Monday, October 23, 2017

The Russian Revolution, a vast and bloody experiment, began a hundred years ago. Hoover fellow Norman M. Naimark insists there are lessons we still need to take from such “forced Utopias.” 

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The Stalin Template

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Hoover Digest
Monday, October 23, 2017

Kim Jong-un learned many things from the USSR’s master of repression. Kim’s bloody efforts to prop up the family dynasty, however, are all his own.

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Tyrants Like Unity, Too

by Bruce Thorntonvia Hoover Digest
Monday, October 23, 2017

America’s founders accepted the perennial clash of “interests and passions”—in fact, they welcomed it. What they feared was unity: the unity of a people under a demagogue or a domineering government. 

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The Expanding Blaze: How The American Revolution Ignited The World, 1775-1848, By Jonathan Israel

by Elizabeth Cobbsvia Times Higher Education (UK)
Thursday, October 12, 2017

I hope on my account you will become a good American,” the Marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat who fought in the American Revolutionary War, wrote to his wife in 1777. He was expressing the goal of reformers around the globe for the succeeding century.

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From Washington To Trump: One Day U. History Lesson Spans 200 Years Of American Presidents

quoting Stephen Kotkinvia NorthJersey.com
Monday, October 9, 2017

About 200 people skipped the costly college tuition and were able to soak up more than 200 years' worth of history lessons by listening to lectures from two top-notch New Jersey professors.

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The Classicist with Victor Davis Hanson:
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The Classicist: The NFL In An Age Of Activism

interview with Victor Davis Hansonvia The Classicist
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

A wave of progressive fervor grips the NFL -- but do the league's actions match up with its rhetoric?

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Area 45: A House Divided – Can The Conservatives Come Together?

interview with Tevi Troy, Bill Whalenvia Area 45
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

The Right: A Whole Divided Into Three Parts.

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