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European Economic Errors for the U.S. to Avoid
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by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Lee Ohanianvia Wall Street Journal
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
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by Stephen Kotkinvia Penguin Press
War: In History’s Shadow
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by Niall Fergusonvia Financial Times
A Century On, the First World War is Still Being Played Out
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by Timothy Garton Ashvia Guardian (UK)
A coal miner in Donetsk, Ukraine
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interview with Michael McFaulvia MSNBC
Four Things We Get Wrong About World War I
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The surrealism of Iraq

by Niall Fergusonvia Los Angeles Times
Monday, December 4, 2006

In Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five," the hero has a hallucination — or, perhaps, a vision...

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Sword of the Shia

with Larry Diamondvia Newsweek
Monday, December 4, 2006

One way to understand Moqtada al-Sadr is to think of him as a young Mafia don...

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Hints of a Rumsfeld-ian style

with George P. Shultzvia Los Angeles Times
Monday, December 4, 2006

Shortly after Ronald Reagan was reelected president, the CIA forwarded a controversial intelligence report on the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II to the White House...

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For Defense Nominee, Echoes of Old Questions

with George P. Shultzvia Washington Post
Monday, December 4, 2006

When President George H.W. Bush nominated him to lead the CIA in 1991, Robert M. Gates was at 47 the youngest intelligence professional to achieve that distinction...

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Analysis and Commentary

Renew Milton Friedman’s Conservatism

by Newt Gingrich with Milton Friedmanvia National Review Online
Monday, December 4, 2006

Milton Friedman was a man of towering eminence...

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Letters To Business

with Milton Friedmanvia San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, December 3, 2006

Editor -- Thanks to David Lazarus for setting such a fine tone in his reminiscence of Milton Friedman ("Milton Friedman, the watch and me," Lazarus at Large, Nov. 17)...

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A Tribute to Milton Friedman

with Milton Friedmanvia Stanford Review
Friday, December 1, 2006

On Thursday November 16, 2006, the world lost Dr. Milton Friedman, one of its greatest minds...

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Smash the WTO; the 19th century version

with Milton Friedman, Niall Fergusonvia Salon
Friday, December 1, 2006

A cartoon from the Sept. 12, 1888 issue of Puck magazine kicks off "A Tale of Two Tariff Commissions and One Dubious 'Globalization Backlash,'" a 2002 exercise in economic history by Stephen Meardon, an economics professor at Williams College...

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Why we may lose the war on terror

with Victor Davis Hansonvia World Views
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

As I was reading and posting this speech by classics professor Victor Davis Hanson, I didn't see that Harrison was posting the same speech below...

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Feulner on Friedman: A Tribute

with Milton Friedmanvia Heritage Foundation
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The extraordinary life of Professor Milton Friedman has been extolled in every major newspaper around the world...

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