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Politics: America’s Missing Constitutional Link
… Republicans attempted to do in prior years, but little will come of it because of the powerful interests with heavy … was viewed as a disreputable business, and the perfidies of “factions” (the Founders’ name for political … senator Eugene McCarthy came within a few percentage points of President Johnson in the Democratic primary, …
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More Letters of Dostoevsky
… first years of his literary activity. With his “Poor Folk,” completed by him in the spring of 1845 (when he was 24), and … and prophesied a brilliant future for Dostoevsky. Belinsky also published an article in the Otechestvennya Zapiski in … scorch my bald pate in the heat of the noonday sun? Shall I die without having seen anything? II In 1862 Dostoevsky went …
Notes on Current Books
… derives from bis knowledge and appreciation of the medieval cosmos. Like the Scholastics’ icres, his too have … is simple in detail and action, complex in motive and fcelirij and tropical as well as primitive in even word and … applied in the actual operation of our government. These points of view lend freshness and vitality to Professor …
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White Gold
… that, Congress was threatening to curtail its generous subsidies for the crop. And so cotton had seemed barely … growers haven’t abandoned cotton entirely. As Falconer points out, “The more alternative crops you can grow, … he tells me. “You can go crazy with that.”  cotton farming 26-39 By Gerard Helferich Photography by John Montfort Jones …
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Why You Should Revisit the Classics From High School
… boy can muster, I saw those English teachers as criminals who had stolen books I would have enjoyed beside a … and generally making everyone else’s experience a drag. I complained loudly that Homer was wasting valuable time by … The Lifetime Reading Plan (1999 edition, the year he died) and Harold Bloom’s  How to Read and Why  (2002). ——— …
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Force, Order, and Diplomacy In the Age of Louis XIV
… through “ceaseless negotiation.” By the time Richelieu died, in 1642, France had fostered a new class of … and weeping for the passing of his guardian, Louis commenced his 63 years of personal rule—the longest in … was an expensive exercise in Bourbon propaganda. Versailles also served to keep some 2000 troublesome nobles—the bane of …
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