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The Real McCoy

In the early 1950’s when my family got our first TV set—it had a whopping 12" screen with a green tint—we kids tuned in to The Tim McCoy Show, which aired early Saturday evenings on a local Los Angeles station, KTLA, Channel 5.

Managerial Suicide

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

It is increasingly clear that the public and political class of Western countries is simply inadequate to the job of fighting terrorism.

Splendid Dishonesty

William Watkins, Jr.

Stephen B. Presser identifies a crisis in American legal education. In his book Law Professors, he shows us why a newly minted graduate of an elite American law school has no clue how to handle a case or provide useful legal services.

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The Hidden Costs of “National Security”
William D. Hartung | July 26, 2017
You wouldn’t know it, based on the endless cries for more money coming from the military, politicians, and the president, but these are the best of times for the Pentagon.
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Are America's Wars Just and Moral?
Pat Buchanan | July 25, 2017
What injury did the Assad regime, in power for half a century and having never attacked us, inflict to justify what we have helped to do to that country? Is this war moral by our own standards?
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The Condottiere
John Lukacs | July 24, 2017
We live in an age when biography flourishes, contrary to earlier expectations. The reason for this is the decline of the novel and the rise of popular interest in all kinds of history, and biography belongs within history.
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Empire of Destruction: Precision Warfare? Don’t Make Me Laugh
Tom Engelhardt | July 20, 2017
You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and tracked human being just about anywhere on Earth; special operations raids so pinpoint-accurate that they would represent a triumph of modern military science.
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