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An Israeli right-wing supporter brandishes a toy gun while demonstrating against the visit of US President George W Bush ((Getty Images))
If you think the Middle East is doomed to be at war forever, look to Europe for hope. Historian James J. Sheehan is author of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? about Europe laying down its arms after World War II following centuries of conflict. Also, a debate over Mike Huckabee’s proposal for a national consumption tax.
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James J. SheehanAre You The One? Huckabee and Fair Tax
Steven Landsburg, professor of economics at the University of Rochester, writer of the "Everyday Economics" column in Slate, and author of More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics (Free Press, 2007)and Len Burman, director for the Tax Policy Center, discusses the fair ...
Are You The One? Republican Debate and the Economy
Chris Cillizza, columnist for The Fix at Washington Post.com, talks about the importance of Michigan to the Republican candidates.
Are You The One? Words or Deeds
Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist and author, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show (Public Affairs 2006), on which is more important words or deeds.
A Peaceable Region
James Sheehan, professor of History at Stanford University, former president of the American Historical Association, and the author of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), writes about how Europe moved beyond militarism.
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? ...
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? ...
Crying is Cool
Dana Stevens, film critic for Slate, talks about whether sentimentality is hip in films.