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The Names in the Book
There is a moment in every father's life — a small, ordinary moment, perhaps over toast and homework, perhaps in the
The Levity of Empire
On the first day of May, before an audience at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, the President of the United States st
A Love Tap, A Long War
There is a particular kind of dishonesty that begins to bloom whenever a republic finds itself at war and would rather n
The Last Honest Number
There was a time, not so long ago, when Americans believed that a number meant a thing — that a price was a fact about t
The Wages of Another Man's War
There is a particular cruelty in being asked to pay for a war you did not vote for, did not believe in, and were promise
The Receipt
There is a number a man ought to be made to look at. Three hundred and fifty-two billion dollars, since the founding of
The Coin Remembers
There is a particular American tragedy in watching a man who served the institution he helped weaken now insist that the
The Strait and the Schoolhouse
There is a school in Minab, in the south of Iran, that is no longer there. A missile is reported to have killed more tha
The Building on Constitution Avenue
There is, in this country, a building on Constitution Avenue that has come to mean what we will not say aloud. Its renov
The Quiet Theft
There is a theft that no one will prosecute, committed in broad daylight, announced in press releases written in the ane
Notes on a Borrowed Dollar
There is something obscene, and I mean obscene in the old ecclesiastical sense — a thing set apart from the sacred — abo
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