the ussr imperiled world peace and ever more drawn to the thralls of absolutism, he became—despite having grown up in an ardently liberal household—a reagan devotee. switching his attentions from literature to become a history major focused on russia, he wrote a senior thesis asking if the ...
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Early on in his political career, Calhoun was notable for being a war hawk, openly advocating and pressing for the United States to go to war with Great Britain. He got his wish when the War of 1812 began. During the war, Calhoun fought to raise troops and support the army from Congres...
The mystery of iniquity doth already work.—Both “mystery” and “iniquity” have the article in the Greek, perhaps (as in2Thessalonians 2:3) because the phrase was well known to the Thessalonians.Lawlessnessis a more literal rendering than “iniquity”; the same word in1John 3:4is render...
“What’s odd about Friedman’s absolutism on the virtues of markets and the vices of government is that in his work as an economist’s economist he was actually a model of restraint. As I pointed out earlier, he made great contributions to economic theory by emphasizing the role of indivi...
but at least the state ought to be able to provide formal equality before the law. Such at least was his response to Bismarckian Prussia. For our purposes, however, the passage in the novel challenges us to consider aspects of variants of contemporary democracy, in the ...