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Public Spaces Like Tahrir Square Aided Arab Spring Protests
From Egypt’s Tahrir Square to Tunisia’s central Bourguiba Avenue to the plazas of Syria’s ancient cities, public squares have been at the center of the Arab Spring.
Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial
Socrates, the famed Greek philosopher, made a rare public appearance on May 12, in the Ceremonial Courtroom of Manhattan’s Federal Courthouse. In fact, he took the corporeal form of famed defense attorney Benjamin Brafman, currently representing embattled IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was highly animated in his defense against the millennia-old impiety and corruption charges levied against the Athenian
The Presidency: Exposure
“The Kennedy buildup goes on,” wrote James MacGregor Burns, a Williams College political science professor and John Kennedy's admiring biographer, in the New Republic. “The adjectives tumble over one another
The Nation: Nixon and Kissinger: Triumph and Trial
IT was a year of visitations and bold ventures with Russia and China, of a uniquely personal triumph at the polls for the President, of hopes raised and lately dashed for peace in Viet Nam.
Religion: Is God in Our Genes?
It’s not hard to see the divinity behind the water temples that dot the rice terraces of Bali.
Ohio: Top Cop
Seated behind his 8-ft. desk, Stanley Russell Schrotel looks like a corporation executive and talks like a university professor.
The Market Can’t Cure Medicare
Our faith in the power of the free market to solve our problems got a big endorsement from Congressman Paul Ryan.
Are Private Schools Really Better?
Harvard professor Martin Feldstein used to tell students in his introductory economics class that economists agree on 99% of the issues in the field. From the nature of monopolies to the basic laws of inflation, Feldstein asserted, economists of all political stripes are in accord on the same principles
Paleo Diet: ‘New Evolution Diet’ Author De Vany on Food and Exercise
Most New Year’s resolutions have an awfully short shelf life. By the end of January, folks who swore they would lose weight and shape up may already be back on the Krispy Kremes.