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Election 2012: A Prediction
I generally think that the media’s obsession with pre-election polling — and the frenzied, horserace nature of it — is a particularly idle waste of our collective time and attention. The vote tally...
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Our Relationship to Our President
“The relationship of Americans to their President is a matter of amazement to foreigners. Of course we respect the office and admire the man who can fill it, but at the same time we inherently fear...
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Republicans, Here’s How to Defeat Obamacare (Spoiler: Delay the Mandate)
If Republicans are serious about gumming up the gears of Obamacare, and eventually seeing the reform metastasize and the law repealed, there is one simple, shrewd, and potentially very effective...
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John in Joe’s Shadow
“For someone who prided himself on his independence — whose sense of self rested partly on questioning authority, on making up his own mind about public issues and private standards — taking on his...
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Jack’s Easy Conquests
“Jack’s greatest success in his first two years at Harvard was in winning friends and proving to be ‘a lady’s man’… Jack’s discovery that girls liked him or that he had a talent for charming them gave...
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‘The Strongest of the Stricken’: Robert Kennedy Reacts to His Brother’s Death
“The question arose whether the coffin should be open or closed. The casket arrived at the White House early in the morning of the twenty-third. After a brief service in the East Room, ‘I (Robert)...
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‘Tragedy without Reason?’: Robert Kennedy Endures His Brother’s Death
“Tragedy without reason? But was there anything in the universe without reason? The question echoed: ‘Why, God?’ For an agnostic the murder of John Kennedy seemed one more expression of the ultimate...
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‘The Mystery of Suffering’: Robert Kennedy and the Meaning of Grief
“Over Easter in 1964 [Robert] went with Jacqueline, her sister and brother-in-law, the Radziwills, and Charles Spalding to Paul Mellon’s house in Antigua. Jacqueline, who had been seeking her own...
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‘Through the Haze of Pain’: Robert Kennedy Rises from the Depths
“With all he had striven for smashed in a single afternoon, [Robert] had an overwhelming sense of the fragility and contingency of life. He had never taken plans very seriously in the past. He could...
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Andrew Jackson on the Rule of Law
“But in order to maintain the Union unimpaired, it is absolutely necessary that the laws passed by the constituted authorities should be faithfully executed in every part of the country, and that...
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Foreseeing a President Trump in 1998
“[M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being...
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Election 2012: A Prediction
I generally think that the media’s obsession with pre-election polling — and the frenzied, horserace nature of it — is a particularly idle waste of our collective time and attention. The vote tally...
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