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Hillary Clinton’s Obituary: reflections on a post mortem

I Come Tuesday, June 3, and I dreaded having to write Sen. Clinton’s obituary. All the little signs and omens,
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The Tale of Two Men

I “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union …” Thus starts Mr. Obama’s speech delivered today
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A clear case of bias or just hype? – Analysis of our electoral system

I If you’re to believe everything you hear since the Tuesday primaries, you’d think that Hillary’s chances of securing the
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Ethics, Politics, and Emotion: The Mary Phagan Story

I I spoke of the ultimate concern for the other as a prerequisite for — indeed, as the very foundation
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The Year of the Woman: Then and Now

I It wasn’t too long ago that Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both from California, broke the glass ceiling along
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The China Syndrome, Take Two

A Preamble It never ceases to amaze me how one event can yield divergent interpretations. Let it be a lesson
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On Federalism, Nation-States, and Other Matters

I Robert Heilbroner argues that our “sense of identification,” which is to say, identification with persons or groups of persons
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The Modern-Day Liberal, A Portrait

I I used to detest labels. Still do! They’re shortcuts to thinking, given to stereotyping, and generally speaking, demeaning when
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Protest, Protest Forever!

I “The medium is the message,” so said Marshall McLuhan to suggest “the form of a medium embeds itself in the
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The New York Autumn

I Has the Arab Spring come to our shores by way of the New York Autumn? Is this a valid
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