Entries about 'politics'

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Magnanimity in Victory

The correct attitude for a victor who wants to avoid a repetition of a war is to abandon any thought of revenge, however monstrous have been the acts of the defeated.

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The Most Horrible Consistory on Record

As we contemplate the approaching consistory to elect a successor to Benedict XVI, it is consoling to read about the one that elected Celestine IV in the thirteenth century as Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick, besieged Rome. Abusive guards herded ten Cardinals into a dilapidated room, without proper food or doctors.

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The Debt Limit Agreement And Why It’s Important

The failure of the “super committee” to agree on debt reduction, like the summer kerfuffle over raising the debt limit, is by no means just the result of perverse factionalism by two stubborn sets of politicians. It is a necessary test of the fundamental direction of the Republic. We are deciding what kind of government we want.

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Continental Drift—America and France

I have always loved France, and it is with chagrin that I see the centrifugal forces of history steadily separating that wonderful country and my own.

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