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The Importance of Key West

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I am writing this from Key West in Florida because after a year my wife decided I needed to get out of the house and have a vacation. I am at the southernmost point of the United States because of her concern for me. As I write this, I hear roosters crowing outside our hotel […]

The Institutionalization of Crises

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

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U.S. President Donald Trump’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

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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

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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

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

Britain Returns to Its Past

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

The Intelligence Dilemma

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The United States claims to have identified a massive Russian intelligence operation meant to gather secrets from corporations and the government. The line from...
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