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  • It’s about 1948 (pt. 1/2)

    Wars are both good and bad times for history lessons. Good because history tends to lead to wars (p<0.05 in all specifications), and in the midst of violence and chaos it occurs to people to look back and see what happened before all this. Bad because all the violence and…

  • Cold, Calculating Pacifism

    Israel has dealt indiscriminate death and destruction to civilians in the Gaza Strip over the last month. Those who react to this devastation by calling for a ceasefire are at a disadvantage in the arena of U.S. foreign policy because of the arguments that proponents of war are allowed to…