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Lyndon B. Johnson

No Free Lunch

Peter G. Peterson | Jul 01, 2007
America needs to start facing hard economic choices.

The President's Man

I.M. Destler | Jan 03, 2007
McGeorge Bundy’s honest reversal on Vietnam contrasts with the Bush team’s unwillingness to look back—or forward.

The Politics of Quagmire

Colin Dueck | Nov 10, 2006
The Republicans’ loss is not necessarily the Democrats’ gain.

The Politics of Quagmire

Colin Dueck | Nov 08, 2006
The Republicans’ loss is not necessarily the Democrats’ gain.

Going Critical

Niall Ferguson
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
| Sep 01, 2003
Long before the American Empire becomes overstretched abroad, it will implode economically at home.
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Blogs

Democracies Get the Wars They Deserve

Paul R. Pillar | Oct 12, 2010
America is stuck in a pattern of accepting faulty concepts during wars as common knowledge. Remember the domino theory?

Books & Reviews

Democracy & Its Discontents

John Dunn | Feb 23, 2010
The inevitability of republicanism as the answer to infinite governmental woes seemed clear. Yet the belief that the world abhors an ideological vacuum was mistaken.

An American Monarch

Gordon S. Wood | Jan 29, 2010
Obama’s attack on the Supreme Court is just the latest in a long history of presidential power grabs. Gordon Wood dissects John Yoo.

In the Shadow of War

Richard Overy | Dec 29, 2009
Western society tends to see disaster all around, from climate change to terrorism. But we live in a time of unbridled prosperity. Our age has nowhere near as great a measure of crisis as the age of total war.
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