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America in Retreat
America in Retreat by Mel Gurtov 986 words An Appalling Display Imagine that during World War II, at the height of Nazi Germany’s blitz of Britain, President Roosevelt invited PM Winston Churchill to Washington and humiliated him with derisive comments about Britain’s looming defeat and failure to thank the President for US support. Unthinkable, of
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Do We Need an Enemy to Know Ourselves?
Orwell, enemy, evil, Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Jon Rainwater Do We Need an Enemy to Know Ourselves? by Robert C. Koehler 1030 words “The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.” The words are from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (where else?), explaining the root causes
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Common Sense
Common Sense by Winslow Myers 775 words The term “common sense” is often evoked by President Trump, though his “common” sense can seem grotesquely solitary and unique, as for example when he cruelly shut down the USAID program, increasing disease, malnutrition and death for people in faraway places with desperate needs. Or when he blamed