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In one of the whitest of American places in one of the reddest American states, one out of every 16 people …
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INTRODUCTION BY GARRY V. WENSKE This year marks the 40th anniversary of the investigations by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Multi-National …
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The Great Pandemic of 1918 spread through a fatal cough. Vomiting and delirium followed. Victims spat blood, then suffocated. Most …
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Widely treated as the best short statement of liberalism’s essence, John Stuart Mill’s “harm principle” from On Liberty states, “The …
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Denmark shares Great Britain’s sceptical view of the European Union, but the size of the country and positioning of its …
The excesses of the McCarthy Era had many victims and the shocking death of Senator Lester Hunt in 1954 remains a chilling reminder of how political passions in a time of unreasoning fear can lead not only to a trampling of civil liberties, but to even more tragic consequences.
The short period from 1947 to 1956 may well have been the most tumultuous and also the nastiest period in …