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Can a State Ban What Therapists Say? Mill vs. Burke on the Conversion Therapy Ruling. (Part 1)
Burke defends tradition but breaks from it. Mill defends liberty but hesitates to use it.
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Napoleon vs Carl von Clausewitz on the Iran Peace Talks: Why the Man Who Lost in Russia Is Debating the Man Who Theorized It
A behind-the-scenes look at the debate, the sources, and why these two ended up across from each other at the exact moment the Islamabad talks…
Apr 14
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Did America Win Anything? Napoleon vs Clausewitz on Whether the Iran Peace Can Hold.
Napoleon says dictate the terms before the advantage runs out. Clausewitz says there were never any clear terms to dictate. One of them conquered most…
Apr 14
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Did NATO Make Europe Weak? Machiavelli vs Wilson on Collective Security and the Iran War.
One man wrote the book on why depending on a patron destroys you. The other designed the architecture of collective security and died defending it. Five…
Apr 10
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Niccolo Machiavelli vs Woodrow Wilson: The Argument About NATO Gets Ugly
The Prince has no patience left for idealism. The President has no patience left for cynicism dressed up as wisdom. Neither of them is wrong about the…
Apr 10
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Niccolo Machiavelli vs Woodrow Wilson: Did Collective Security Turn Europe Into a Dependency?
Machiavelli spent 1513 explaining why states that outsource their defense stop being states. Wilson spent 1919 building the institution that would do…
Apr 9
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Is NATO Already Dead? Bismarck vs Burke on Whether the Alliance Can Be Saved.
The man who built the modern alliance system says this one is finished. The father of conservatism says men who tear things down never understand what…
Apr 8
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Otto von Bismarck vs Edmund Burke on NATO: Why Neither Man Will Budge an Inch
Bismarck calls it sentiment. Burke calls it recklessness. By the end neither of them is being particularly polite about it.
Apr 8
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Otto von Bismarck vs Edmund Burke on NATO: The Case for Divorce vs the Case for Staying Married
Bismarck built the European alliance system and watched it collapse. Burke spent his life explaining why tearing things down is always easier than…
Apr 7
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Thomas Paine vs. Edmund Burke on Birthright Citizenship: Why These Two, and Why Now
A behind-the-scenes look at the debate, the sources, and why each man takes the position he does
Apr 6
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Born Here, Belong Here? Thomas Paine vs. Edmund Burke on Birthright Citizenship (Part 2)
The gloves come off. Robespierre gets blamed. Nobody apologizes.
Apr 6
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Born Here, Belong Here? Thomas Paine vs. Edmund Burke on Birthright Citizenship (Part 1)
Two of history's greatest political rivals open controlled, argue in completely incompatible registers, and begin to lose their patience.
Apr 3
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