Pearls Before Swine

Pearls Before Swine
Yes, it was a great speech, the more so for its unadorned honesty, not for soaring, rhetorical cadences like those of his campaign. Yes, he told the Roberts Court to its face what damage it has done. Yes, he put…


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The lovin’ was easy, It’s the livin’ that’s hard . . .
“It is our hope that policy makers will appreciate the evidence we present regarding the importance of truly full employment, particularly as it applies to those in the bottom half of the income scale. Given recent abuses of corporate power,…


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While Bob Kagan Waits for Nations to Become Democratic…
The recent first-year assessment of Obama foreign policy by Robert Kagan in World Affairs Journal has prompted a meaty discussion of how (and whether) US foreign policy has been reoriented by the new administration. The heart of Kagan’s argument is…



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