Patterson Film Series: The Third Man

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Last week the Patterson Film Series featured The Third Man. As a piece of filmmaking, what is there to say? Reed creates two of the most memorable scenes in the history of cinema, both focused on Orson Welles. The first is our introduction to Welles in...

Durned Liberals

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I, for one, welcome the return of the word "liberal" to something more closely approximating its political theory meaning. I've spent far, far too much time explaining to undergraduates that.

Elections

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Since at least 1980 -- with the infamous Reagan campaign ad claiming that that Ayatollah Khomeini wanted Carter to win a second term -- it's become an article of faith to some that Islamic fanatics want nothing less than Democratic hegemony over all branches of government....

And Then What?

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I have a lot of problems with Amy Sullivan's recent piece about the opportunities allegedly presented by David Kuo's new book. First of all, I reject her entire premise that.

Defeatists

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Via Juan Cole, we read of a minister from Houston who is running around the country insisting that Republicans need to be defeated because George W. Bush is delaying the Second Coming; this runs upstream against the usual premillennialist insistence that the End Times are nigh...
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