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My 15 minutes of fame
They call me the Yuppie specialist
My 15 minutes arrived last month, only 35 years after the seed was planted, and for a reason I would never have expected.
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A response to 'A defense of Andrew Jackson'
A slave-owner and an Indian-killer
Is considering Jackson’s treatment, personal and political, of blacks and Native Americans an example of political correctness gone awry, of unfairly “judging a 19th-century figure by 21st-century standards”? No, not at all.
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In defense of Andrew Jackson
On giving Old Hickory the business
Suddenly, Andrew Jackson is being reviled as a slave-owner and Indian killer. Yet in his own time, America’s seventh president was a transformational figure who laid the groundwork for all the reforms that have empowered the dispossessed to this day.
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Politicians, lawyers, and the 'Inquirer'
The Inquirer, shocked again
Politicians and lawyers are much like actors, performing for impressionable audiences in order to achieve an immediate goal at a particular moment. Why is this concept so difficult for some journalists to grasp?
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Charles Krauthammer feels your pain
The night of the pundit
Did you ever wonder how pundits like Charles Krauthammer and Peggy Noonan can possibly know what all Americans are thinking and feeling? So did I, until my phone rang last week.
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Anger, violence, and the police
Who caused this darkness?
A Baltimore mother was lionized for beating up her teenage son when she spotted him at a protest demonstration. And the lesson is….
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Patrick Hazard remembered
He did it his way
Most of us tiptoe cautiously through life. BSR's prolific contributor Patrick D. Hazard spent 88 years gleefully violating boundaries and pushing his envelope in all sorts of unpredictable directions.
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Campaign slogans for Hillary Clinton
The ultimate creative challenge
What’s a nonideological presidential candidate to do when everyone’s asking, “What does Hillary stand for?” Turn to BSR for advice, that’s what.
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Are wars inevitable?
If Hitler had been killed . . .
Was World War I inevitable? How about the Holocaust? The Civil War? The world’s great tragedies may seem preordained in retrospect, but Margaret MacMillan reminds us that they might very easily never have happened at all, just as you and I might easily have never existed either.
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Sam Katz’s ‘The Storm: 1765-1790’
Human miracles, ancient and modern
In Sam Katz’s new documentary about the American Revolution, the God-like catalysts are neither Moses nor Jesus but homegrown miracle workers like James Logan and Benjamin Franklin, and especially the angry masses at society’s bottom.
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