Tag Archives: Political Science
“What Is It About Mormons?”
The New York Times is hosting an interesting conversation in its “Room for Debate” section entitled “What Is It About Mormons?” At the center of the debate is the notion that while Mormons typically embody traditional American ideals, such as: cherishing family, … Continue reading
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Israel-Palestine: A Binary Fallacy
by Sarah Glidden, author of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (Vertigo, 2011) When I used to think about growing as a person, I visualized my life as a sort of graph: a steadily climbing, sometimes dipping line … Continue reading
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How to Run the World
by Parag Khanna, author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (Random House, 2011) The past decade—from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the global financial meltdown—has taught us the dangers of interdependence and that outsourcing … Continue reading
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Why Africa is Poor, and What We Can Do About It
by Robert Guest, author of The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives (Smithsonian Books, 2010) I once hitched a ride on a truck through a West African rain forest. The journey was supposed to take less than a day, … Continue reading
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Teaching the Cold War to a Generation Born After
by Stephen Kotkin, author of Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Modern Library, 2010) I started teaching at Princeton University in September 1989—and two months into my first course the Berlin Wall fell. The ink on my … Continue reading
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The Enough Moment
by John Prendergast, co-author of The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa’s Worst Human Rights Crimes (Three Rivers Press, 2010) Three of the most horrible scourges facing humanity are genocide (the destruction of people based on their identity), rape as a war … Continue reading
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Third World America
by Arianna Huffington, author of Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream (Broadway, 2011) As a young girl growing up in Greece, I remember walking to school in the city of … Continue reading
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Obama, Madoff and American Self-Esteem
by Dick Meyer, author of Why We Hate Us: American Discontent and the New Millennium (Three Rivers Press, 2009). Since publishing Why We Hate Us: American Discontent and the New Millennium, the single question I have been asked the most … Continue reading
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Why You’re Wrong About the Crusades
by Lars Brownworth, author of Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Crown, 2009). There are few words as controversial—or as misunderstood—as ‘crusade’. Those who doubt that need only remember nine years ago when President George … Continue reading
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