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Without Evidence: Joel Richard Paul’s John Marshall

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What could be worse than attributing a crime to John Marshall and his brother? Justifying it, which is in effect what this biographer does.

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Spinning Tales about the “Intelligence Cycle”

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Sound intelligence about our adversaries is hard to come by—including in this book.

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Was It a Refounding?

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A new essay collection examines the political thought of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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The Aspirations of Women

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Mona Charen helps us ponder to what extent sexual libertinism is separable from other parts of the feminist agenda.

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Reading America from the Outside

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Outsiders often see more about us than we do ourselves: James L. Nolan shows us what Tocqueville, Weber, Chesterton, and Qutb noticed.

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Let’s Get Real about War

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If we don't want a future of endless wars, we must raise taxes to pay for them, oust budget-busting politicians, and reinstitute the draft.

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How Free Trade Profits a Nation

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Free traders should seize the mantle of patriotism and love of nation from protectionists.

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Federal Government, Shakedown Artist

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Government arm-twisting over who was responsible for starting the Moonlight Fire in California in 2007.

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How Nation-States Secure Freedom

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It’s the supranational institutions, unrepresentative and unaccountable, that tend to do the opposite—and that spur destructive forms of nationalism.

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“To Make Disciples of All Nations”

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Christ’s message for mankind and the writings of the spiritual sages of the East -- a natural combination?

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