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10 May 2014
“Peace, as we have seen, is not an order natural to mankind: it is artificial, intricate and highly volatile. All kinds of preconditions are necessary.” —...
28 March 2014
Oh lethal, ticklish topic. So many people love guns and swear by them — many of them people with whom I am otherwise in essential political agreement. And it’s...
21 November 2013
“The only premise of the book was to just go out and listen.”
And the book, edited by Miles Harvey, who is quoted above, is remarkable. It’s one of a...
13 November 2013
I felt the music and the fire as the civil rights movement rose from its slumber.

“Repair . . . justice!” went the call and response last week,...
21 October 2013
What if we had politicians who believed in the abolition of war with as much passion as the Republican right believes in the abolition of taxes?

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10 October 2013
In an agony of stupidity, the government shuts down.

Only some of it shuts down, of course. The part that stays open is the part that’s at war. “...

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