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Eternal War?

I don't think most Obama supporters realize that Obama is running on a platform promising unending war in the Middle East. I don't mean...

A Historical Perspective on the 2008 Election

I was recently reading the Harvard Independent (a mistake, I know), and one of the writers had a piece discussing two widely-read articles over...

Culture War: On Like Donkey Kong

The presidential race has taken more of an interesting turn than I could have imagined with John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as a...

Making Sense of "Country First"

John McCain's speech at the Republican National Convention did a handful of things poorly and a lot of things well. While the speech didn't...

The Keynote Speaker, Back on the Campaign Trail

Fresh off of his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, former Virginia governor Mark Warner is spending the rest of his summer...

On History

recently read an article by Bernard-Henri Levy in the New Republic on the financial crisis, which I highly recommend. There was one part I...

Thoughts on the Georgian Conflict

I don't think history has in any sense "returned"; as Robert Kagan has suggested of the recent conflict in Georgia, but merely has become...

Whenever One Door Closes

On April 29, 1972, the Barristers Union at Yale Law School held its annual Prize Trial, in which four top lawyers, two to a...

Without Illusions

“I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them,” Caroline Kennedy wrote in January...

Right-Wing Zingers

Republicans lately seem to be trying harder to be funny than ever before. And in many cases, they're actually succeeding—albeit in a a...