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Chronicles Magazine March 2018

REVIEWS

Politics Is Policy
John Seiler, Jr. - FEBRUARY 08, 2018
“Drain the swamp!” Donald Trump declared in every campaign speech of 2016. He meant, of course, the Swamp of Washington, D.C., home of the labyrinthine network of centralized bureaucracies that control our lives. It’s also called the Deep State...
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Two Friends, Two Americas
Patrick Walsh - FEBRUARY 08, 2018
Gordon Wood, regarded as the foremost historian of the American Revolution, has written a very fine account of the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
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Not Your Brain
William Murchison - FEBRUARY 08, 2018
Let’s give credit where it’s due. Linda Greenhouse, retired Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, is a brilliantly qualified journalist: hard-working, creative, dedicated to the needs of her profession as she understands them.
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What the Editors Are Reading
Anthony Esolen , Ralph Berry - FEBRUARY 08, 2018
Outside of my regular reading for the courses I’m teaching—this semester, this week, Livy’s History of Rome, Books 1-5, and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book 1—I have been reading mainly books and articles with some relation to nostalgia, broadly...
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Books in Brief
Chilton Williamson Jr. - FEBRUARY 08, 2018
The author of this engaging, highly interesting, and extremely well-written book is senior fellow and Hyde Park Resident Historian at the Roosevelt Institute, in addition to holding academic professorships at both Marist and Bard College.
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Correspondence

New Light on the Lakes
Derek Turner - FEBRUARY 08, 2018
We had been dreaming about Andalusia. But plans sometimes must be altered, and so one August evening we found ourselves instead entering into Ulverston, 1,300 miles from Andalusia, and even more distant climatically, culturally, and historically.
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