Politics & Government
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Smith

Dzerzhinsky asked what had gone wrong, and Haskell gave a long list of the troubles he’d been experiencing with Eiduk. For every complaint Eiduk had an excuse, and for every ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Fintan O'Toole

5. SADOPOPULISM I hurt myself today to see if I still feel –TRENT REZNOR, ‘Hurt’ If you are English and in your fifties or early sixties, two things are likely ...
( Category: Nationalism November 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Rich Lowry

Slavery Threatened Westward Expansion and the Union Itself The real check on US territorial expansion, at least for a time, would be slavery and the contention between the country’s sections ...
( Category: Nationalism November 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:J. D. Dickey

In the fall of 1749 Boston threatened to erupt in riot once more. The issue this time was the retirement of the wartime debt of Massachusetts, which had reached ungodly ...
( Category: History & Theory November 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

chapter eight SENECA FALLS DECLARATION Women’s Suffrage WARS SOMETIMES OPEN SOCIAL SPACE FOR women. When men go off to fight and die, women take their places, running households and family ...
( Category: Democracy November 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Slavoj Zizek

Therein resides the unique chance opened up by the very real threat of nuclear (or ecological, for that matter) destruction: when we become aware of the danger that we might ...
( Category: History & Theory November 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Brian Brown

In 1955, Graham Greene published The Quiet American. It would have improved the world’s future had it expanded Dwight Eisenhower’s thinking. Greene’s anti-imperialist novel is about a U.S. official in ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Iain MacGregor

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Going Underground It had been a fairly uneventful shift for the military policemen stationed at Checkpoint Charlie in the early hours of the morning on January 9, 1972. ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-12 | Author:Lawrence Lessig

SOME OF US Imagine a village called Jury, Alaska, and imagine that the people in Jury, Alaska, believe in “the jury.” Both civil and criminal cases are tried before juries. ...
( Category: Democracy November 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-01 | Author:Sarah Kreps

Consequences of a War without Apparent Costs Afghanistan was often labeled the “good war” as Obama had called it, legitimate and necessary when contrasted with the Iraq War, and less ...
( Category: Military Policy November 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Andrew Roberts

CHAPTER SIX GEORGE C. MARSHALL 1880–1959 On Tuesday, December 16, 1947, Winston Churchill’s wife, Clementine, gave a dinner party in honor of the U.S. secretary of state, General George Catlett ...
( Category: Leadership November 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-03 | Author:Ulrich Herbert

Jaspers’ theses had a tremendous impact, though most reactions were critical. People strongly objected to the link he made between the Nazi past and the nation-state. From that time onwards, ...
( Category: History & Theory November 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Dalrymple, William [Dalrymple, William]

Ten days later, on 25 August 1780, the Company’s largest concentration of troops in southern India finally marched out of Madras and headed south along the coast road towards Kanchipuram ...
( Category: Asian November 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Lee Smith

Patel says the money that Page was supposed to have collected from the deal with Sechin was another aspect of the dossier that could be found to be true or ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 31,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Anne Nelson

CHAPTER 11 THE ART OF THE DEAL: NEW YORK, JUNE 21, 2016 The candidate was the problem. Ted Cruz had won the hearts, minds, and purses of the CNP and ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 31,2019 )