- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
- Forgetting
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
- Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
- Changes
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.
- Forties
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).
- Corey
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- Nov 07, 2020