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The Importance of Key West

I am writing this from Key West in Florida because after a year my wife decided I needed to get out of the house...

The Institutionalization of Crises

About a year after the COVID-19 pandemic introduced its new rules of survival, my wife and I risked life and limb for the chance...

The Origins of the Public and Private

Last week, I wrote a piece about the virtues of private life and its centrality to the good life. I want to go deeper...

Biden’s ‘Reversals’

Just about every U.S. president promises a new era of U.S. foreign policy. George W. Bush promised to abolish nation building as a goal....

In Praise of Private Life

Joe Biden has been inaugurated as president of the United States, and Donald Trump has taken the traditional flight home. Many are incensed by...

Obama, Trump and Biden: Consistency in Foreign Policy

U.S. foreign policy comes in phases. From the end of World War II to 1972, its goal was to confront the Soviet Union and...

Understanding Trump

U.S. President Donald Trumpā€™s supporters and detractors are both obsessed with him. They share the belief that everything that has happened is because of...

A Major Contraction in Jobs

Some 140,000 Americans lost their jobs last month, the largest decline in employment since last April. Yet, the unemployment rate stayed at roughly 6.7...

First Thoughts on a National Tragedy

A physician is taught to avoid emotional involvement with patients. If he suffers with them, the pain will break him and his judgement will...

Yesterday

There are moments in history best grasped by silence. Silence is the best I can do now.

Britain Returns to Its Past

As of Jan. 1, Britain has completed the process of leaving the European Union. The EU has assured all that dire consequences will haunt...

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