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Munich and the Alps

I’m writing this from the easyInternetcafe in Munich near the Hauptbahnhof. I took part in a program on education and research in Germany sponsored by the Council on Public Policy,…

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Troy

I finally saw the movie Troy. It was a mixed experience. I had steeled myself not to consider this a movie version of the Iliad and to think of it…

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Goodbye, Lenin!

I was both amused and touched by a delightful film out of Germany, Goodbye, Lenin! (English web site; German web site) that I saw the other night. It’s about the…

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Our Enemies’ Handiwork

The radical Islamicists have shown us again what they really are. The world should see the photos they released of their latest act of savagery. What else can one do…

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Our Enemies’ Handiwork

The radical Islamicists have shown us again what they really are. The world should see the photos they released of their latest act of savagery. What else can one do…

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Our Enemies’ Handiwork

The radical Islamicists have shown us again what they really are. The world should see the photos they released of their latest act of savagery. What else can one do…

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Our Enemies’ Handiwork

The radical Islamicists have shown us again what they really are. The world should see the photos they released of their latest act of savagery. What else can one do…

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Multiculturalism

I’ve just posted as a PDF my essay on “Madison and Multiculturalism,” which appeared on the occasion of James Madison’s 250th birthday in James Madison and the Future of Limited…

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Brown University

I just got in to Brown University to give three talks on globalization at a seminar of the Institute for Humane Studies. (I have to admit that I’m at the…

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Ronald Reagan and Memory Distortion

It’s remarkable how so many commentators on Ronald Reagan have airbrushed their own astonishingly vicious treatment of him when he was president. Andrew Sullivan has collected together a few gems…

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