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Review of Rebecca Sanders, “Plausible Legality: Legal Culture and Political Imperative in the Global War on Terror” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
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A review of Yael Tamir, “Why Nationalism” (Princeton University Press, 2019)
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A review of Austin Carson, “Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics” (Princeton University Press, 2018)
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A review of Preet Bharara, "Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and The Rule of Law" (Knopf, 2019)
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A review of James Loeffler, “Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (Yale UP, 2018)
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With whom have we not spent heart-warming hours there, looking out from the terrace over the beautiful and peaceful landscape, without suspecting that exactly opposite, on the mountain of Berchtesgaden, a man sat who would one day destroy it all?
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A review of David Priess, “How to Get Rid of a President: History’s Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives” (PublicAffairs, 2018)
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A review of Michael Beschloss, “Presidents of War” (Crown Books, 2018).
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A review of P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media” (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2018).
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A review of Greg Miller, “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy” (HarperCollins Publishers, 2018)
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Two narratives about Russian interference in the 2016 election are in direct competition with one another.
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A review of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018).
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