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The Bully Pulpit: JR Benjamin- Gore Vidal: ‘Rioting in Understatement’

“The two parties, which are really one party, cannot be put to use. They are the country’s ownership made carnival. Can the united action of individual citizens regain some control over government? I think so. But it won’t be easy, … Continue reading

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Mark Lilla: ‘The Shipwrecked Mind’

Source:Politics & Prose– Mark Lilla & Andrew Sullivan at Politics & Prose in Washington. “Expanding on the essays he’s published in The New York Review of Books and The New Republic, Lilla’s seventh book is a rich history of political … Continue reading

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The Bully Pulpit: JR Benjamin- William F. Buckley on Drug Legalization: The Failure of the War on Drugs

William F. Buckley The Bully Pulpit: JR Benjamin- William F. Buckley on Legalizing Drugs William F. Buckley’s basic position on the War on Drugs was that it was a failure. That he wasn’t in favor of legalizing illegal narcotics which … Continue reading

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