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Over the past four years, Pope John Paul II has developed what is arguably the most sophisticated moral, philosophical, and theological analysis of democracy on offer in the world today.
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The Clinton Administration may be trying to downplay V-J Day, but Uncle Stanley is looking forward to it with relish. Actually, George Stanley Gimson, Queen’s Counsel, the retired Sheriff Principal
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In all of this, there are welcome signs of progress in what Winston Churchill once called “the hard march of man.” But there is also a great paradox. For these
Politics, Politics . . .
In these United States, that phrase “the rule of law” is often taken to be a piety in the civics books; the notion of being a law-governed polity rarely stirs
Political Paralysis
The social rot of American life, as Mahbubani perceives it, has had enormous political consequences, which are intensified by the harsh reality of an irresponsible press and pusillanimous politicians:
Christian Conviction and Democratic Etiquette
According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You got to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.” But since the
National Endowment for Democracy
Virtually every word or phrase in the lexicon of time-hallowed Washington homage fits the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): “bipartisan,” “cost-effective,” “practical,” “timely,” “on the cutting-edge,” “inspiring,” “visionary,” etc. etc.
The Freedom Offensive
The idea that the United States ought to help fellow democrats abroad, for reasons both practical and altruistic, did not, of course, originate with the National Endowment for Democracy. A
The Reagan Initiative
Ten years after Douglas’s book, President Ronald Reagan gave the new thinking real political impetus when he addressed the British House of Commons in historic Westminster Hall. There, on June
An American Argument, a European Revolution
These definitional arguments—and the ways in which they were manipulated by dictators of all stripes (but pre-eminently by Communists and their Western apologists)—shaped the foreign-policy debate in the United States
Getting It Less-Than-Half Right
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