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Machiavelli vs Burke: The United States and Iran Have Lied to Each Other for 70 Years. Now What?
Both nations have lied, betrayed allies, and broken deals for decades. Two philosophers agree the trust is gone but cannot agree on what that means for…
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Alexander Hamilton vs Adam Smith on Tariffs and National Security: The Case for Protection vs the Case for Trade
Hamilton says a nation that cannot supply its own steel cannot defend itself. Smith says Hamilton is describing a permanent subsidy to every industry…
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Is Self-Sufficiency Worth the Price? Hamilton vs Smith on Tariffs and National Security
Hamilton built an economy on protection. Smith built a theory that says you should not. One of them wrote the exception that the other one is…
Jun 2
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Machiavelli vs Burke: Can You Bomb a Country and Recruit Its People at the Same Time?
Burke delivers three objections that should kill the proxy strategy. Machiavelli has an answer for each. Neither man is persuaded and both are losing…
Jun 1
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John Stuart Mill vs Plato on School Curriculum: The Case for Choice vs the Case for Control
Why the author of On Liberty and the author of the Republic are the two thinkers who saw this debate most clearly, and why 2,200 years has not settled…
May 30
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Booker T. Washington vs Woodrow Wilson on School Vouchers: Self-Determination vs the Progressive Promise
Why the founder of Tuskegee and the architect of American progressivism are the two thinkers whose argument about public education still has not been…
May 29
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John Stuart Mill vs Plato on School Curriculum: The Case for Choice vs the Case for Control
Why the author of On Liberty and the author of the Republic are the two thinkers who saw this debate most clearly, and why 2,200 years has not settled…
May 29
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Machiavelli vs Burke: Should America Arm the Kurds to Break Iran Apart?
Machiavelli proposes using air power and ethnic proxies to fragment Iran from the inside. Burke asks what happens when the rubble does not cooperate.
May 28
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Should Black Families Have the Right to Leave Failing Schools? Washington vs Wilson on Vouchers
The man who built Tuskegee from nothing meets the president who resegregated the federal workforce in a fight over who gets to decide where black…
May 27
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Can America Walk Away from Iran Without Losing Everything? Machiavelli vs Burke
The author of The Prince says retreat destroys American credibility for a generation. The father of conservatism says that argument has been bleeding…
May 26
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Thomas Jefferson vs Alexander Hamilton on Data Centers: Local Rights, Stolen Water, and the Oldest Fight in American Politics
Why the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the man who built America's financial system would have destroyed each other over a zoning…
May 21
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Should Your Town Subsidize Data Centers for the Richest Companies in History? Jefferson vs Hamilton
Virginia gave away 1.6 billion dollars a year in data center tax breaks. Jefferson calls it extortion. Hamilton calls it strategy. Only one of them is…
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