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Millennials of the World, Unite!

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“Encouraged to strategize and scheme” to find ways to serve the capitalists, the millennials are today's Oliver Twists according to Malcolm Harris.

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Madison: Pragmatist, Idealist . . . and Game Theorist?

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Jack Rakove makes a plausible case for Madisonian game theory even as he maintains respect for the Madison who said “justice is the end of government.”

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Secular Nationalism, Islamism, and Making the Arab World

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Democracy is not impossible in the Middle East, but a people, a nation, a culture, must work out its own form of government.

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The Essence of Hamilton

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The essays, reports, letters, and speeches that will unveil the historical Hamilton to non-specialists.

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Philosophy As Statesmanship

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Any book that bears the title “Naïve Readings” should be approached with caution. Undoubtedly, the author is up to something.

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Montesquieu: The Ultimate Revisionist

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Vickie B. Sullivan demolishes the notion that he was an apologist for Western political culture.

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Oh, and About Modern Science’s Disenchantment of the World—Not So Fast

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Are we moderns destined always to think that consciousness ultimately reduces to matter?

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How Religion Defends Freedom

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Constant critiqued the ethic of self-interest and called for religion to sustain human freedom.

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America’s Debate between Scientific Innovation and Caution

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Charles Mann traces the history of two competing frames of mind: The “wizards” of scientific innovation and the "prophets" who warn of hubris.

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Montesquieu: From the Harem to the French Church and Court

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Persian Letters may well be Montesquieu’s introduction to his own literary art—to how to write, and how to read.

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