One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
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And of course in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans...
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States...
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake...