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Monthly Archives: May 2020
The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy
Here are some highlights from this 1992 book by Seymour Hersh: * America’s most important military secret in 1979 was in orbit, whirling effortlessly around the world every ninety six minutes, taking uncanny and invaluable reconnaissance photographs of all that … Continue reading
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Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics
Here are some highlights from this 2011 book by John J. Mearsheimer: * I argue that there are sometimes good strategic reasons for leaders to lie to other countries as well as to their own people. International lying, in other … Continue reading
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Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design
Here are some highlights from a 2010 paper in the Minnesota Law Review by two Yale University law professors, Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin: “I’m the commander-see, I don’t need to explain-I do not need to explain why I … Continue reading
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NYT: CARL J. FRIEDRICH DIES AT 83; INFLUENTIAL HARVARD PROFESSOR
Joseph Berger wrote in 1983 for the New York Times: Having lived in an era which saw the rise of Nazism and the spread of Communism, Dr. Friedrich sometimes took a dour view of the human inclination for freedom. In … Continue reading
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The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century Second Edition
Here are some highlights from this 2019 book by William E. Scheuerman: * When I penned this volume’s first edition over twenty years ago, the Carl Schmitt “bug” had just hit the Anglophone intellectual world, with many political theorists, jurists, … Continue reading
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