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Reassessing the Carter Administration 40 Years Later
Bruce Riedel Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 2:01 PM
A review of “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life” by Jonathan Alter (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
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The Originalist Presidency in Practice?
Shalev Roisman Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 2:01 PM
A review of Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash's "The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers" (Harvard University Press 2020)
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The Kremlin’s Return to Active Measures
Richard Tilley Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 2:01 PM
A review of Thomas Rid’s “Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2020)
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Ex-Friends 2020
Aviezer Tucker Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 2:01 PM
A Review of “Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism” by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday, 2020)
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The Libertarian Case for Immigration (and Against Trump)
Peter Margulies Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 3:58 PM
A Review of “Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom” by Ilya Somin (Cato Institute Book, Oxford University Press, 2020)
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The Ayabmuk World
Paul Rosenzweig Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 3:20 PM
A Review of “Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Future” by P.W. Singer & August Cole (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020).
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‘Jihad’ as a Universalist Project in Comparative Perspective
Mara Revkin Thu, May 28, 2020, 3:06 PM
A review of Darryl Li’s The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press, 2019).
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The Middle East Unraveling
Bruce Riedel Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 2:36 PM
A review of Kim Ghattas, “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East” (Henry Holt & Co., 2020)
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Fleeing to the Oceans
Leti Volpp Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 3:10 PM
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A review of Jeffrey S. Kahn, "Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire" (University of Chicago Press, 2019)
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The Irony of 'White House Warriors'
Christopher Fonzone Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 3:28 PM
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A review of John Gans, "White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War" (Liveright, 2019).
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