Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Socrates and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints  is among a number of churches that value the wisdom of Socrates. Church leaders have even...
Monday, May 28, 2018

A review of “The War That Made America”

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"Since the English have in their power an officer and two cadets, and, in general all the prisoners whom they took when [they] assas...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Some of the credit for “separation of powers” should go to Polybius

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“It is well known that in the Roman republic the legislative authority, in the last resort, resided for ages in two different political b...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Spying during the Cold War was a risky business

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“Bond … JAMES Bond.” In May 1960, an  American   U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Russians over Soviet territory , which caused so...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Nixon's visit to China: Driving a wedge between China and the Soviet Union

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This might seem a strange way to begin a blog post about American diplomacy in the Nixon era, but the year 1949 was significant for both t...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

What did the Constitution say about slavery?

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The original Constitution never used the words "slave" or slavery," but it sure did talk about them ... In the Constituti...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Who can vote in the United States?: The voting rights amendments

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" ... that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth ." - Closing lines of  Abr...