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Andrew J. Bacevich is professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University. He is the author of America's War for the Greater Middle East.

February 1, 2019|Andrew Bacevich, Christopher Lasch, Donald Trump, Iraq War, Middle East, Twilight of the American Century

“Slouching Towards Mar-a-Lago:” A Conversation with Andrew Bacevich

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Andrew Bacevich discusses his new book Twilight of the American Century

Reconsidering the Sources of American Liberty

by Tony Williams

Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods: On Charles Péguy’s Temporal and Eternal

by James Matthew Wilson

Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.

Planning the Great Society

A discussion with Amity Shlaes

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

Managing Whiteshift

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.

Holiday Reading Ideas from Law & Liberty

Helen Dale, Rachel Lu, Daniel Mahoney, Jessica Hooten Wilson, and other Law & Liberty writers offer some recommendations.
by Law & Liberty Editors
Planning the Great Society

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?
by Amity Shlaes
What Is the Venture Capital Secret Sauce?

A new book by a Harvard Business School professor does not, alas, illuminate what it might be.
by Reuven Brenner
Applying the Fourth Amendment’s Original Meaning to Cell Phones and Heat Sensors

A proper understanding of the Fourth Amendment can accommodate modern technology, even though that technology was not known at the time.
by Mike Rappaport
Clint Eastwood, Richard Jewell, and the Rush to Judgment

As drama, the film loses something by dehumanizing Kathy Scruggs in much the way the mainstream media dehumanizes people like Richard Jewell.
by Mark Judge

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