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  • A history lesson: Joe McCarthy and communism in America

    “I have here in my hand a list of names,” Joe McCarthy is famously quoted as saying in the 1950s. The senator from Wisconsin is well storied in the history books as the public face symbolizing fears of communist subversion in the U.S. during the Cold War and leading charges that Soviet espionage was widespread…


  • May: The problem with globalism

    May: The problem with globalism

    And why isolationism is not the solution Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.” That line from Donald Trump’s long and emphatic speech to the Republican National Convention jumped out at me. I think I know what he meant: that he prioritizes America’s national interests above those of the wider world. If so, most Americans…


  • May: When universities become day care

    May: When universities become day care

    Back in 1993, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat, warned against “defining deviancy down.” He was talking specifically about crime, about our getting used to it and not taking serious measures to fight it. But over the years since is there any realm of American or European life where acceptance of ever-increasing deviancy…


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